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pacmon on July 1, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Calling PHP functions with named parameters

I think dropping the quotes is a bad idea. This isn't javascript. However, I do agree about the => symbol. I would have preferred if in 5.4 they added support for ':' so, ['a':$b]. At which point, I'm sure someone will say that looks so similar to js syntax, why not drop the quotes? To which I say -personally- I just think it leads to more confusion. (Although for some reason I don't mind that in js - I know.. weird preferences.)

mistercow on July 2, 2012 [–]

>I think dropping the quotes is a bad idea. This isn't javascript.

That doesn't sound like a legitimate reason to me. It's not javascript. So what?

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