Consider the Contacts API. It can return data as a JSON object. However, that object has properties with names that contain dollar signs ($). For example, gd$name. To access it in PHP, one would have to use something like $contact->gd$name. This is illegal in PHP, which is one of the most popular languages around. As a result, in order to use PHP, one has to convert the JSON object to an array (recursively) so as to be able to access fields like this: $contact['gd$name']. This is weird, and I wonder why the folks at Google decided to use dollar signs in names to being with. Did they not know that this would cause problems with PHP?
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