>From the RFC, it looks like it was to make it easier to read nested arrays. https://wiki.php.net/rfc/shortsyntaxforarrays
David Landry On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 9:31 PM, Wade Preston Shearer < [email protected]> wrote: > On 1 Mar 2012, at 21:15, Steve Meyers wrote: > > > http://www.php.net/archive/2012.php#id2012-03-01-1 > > What's the value of the short array syntax? It's barely any shorter. > > <?php > $array = array( > "foo" => "bar", > "bar" => "foo" > ); > > // as of PHP 5.4 > $array = [ > "foo" => "bar", > "bar" => "foo" > ]; > ?> > > > _______________________________________________ > > UPHPU mailing list > [email protected] > http://uphpu.org/mailman/listinfo/uphpu > IRC: #uphpu on irc.freenode.net > _______________________________________________ UPHPU mailing list [email protected] http://uphpu.org/mailman/listinfo/uphpu IRC: #uphpu on irc.freenode.net
