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Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=68178&edit=1
ID: 68178
Updated by: [email protected]
Reported by: php at xkr dot es
Summary: JSON Native Support
Status: Open
Type: Feature/Change Request
Package: PHP Language Specification
Operating System: N/A
PHP Version: Irrelevant
Block user comment: N
Private report: N
New Comment:
You could also use short array syntax:
$a = [['a' => 'b', 'c' => 'CONST', 'd' => null], ['e' => 1.23], ['f' => true]];
Two less characters and I had enough room to space everything out.
Previous Comments:
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[2014-10-07 14:04:37] php at xkr dot es
Shortly, yes. This is not to be considered as an "echo" or "print" alias discussion.
In a broader term, JSON is the data structure most used by programmers in the web development, so I propose a convergence to this widely used data structure.
There are a lot of this to do in PHP, and I conseder this is not the first one, but it will be fine if PHP programmers consider this for the future.
Thanks for your comment.
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[2014-10-07 13:52:09] inefedor at gmail dot com
You propose to add another data-structure on the language level which will have the same semantics as arrays but another syntax or what?
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[2014-10-07 13:48:40] php at xkr dot es
Description:
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It will be fine if native support of JSON blocks will be added in the future to the language specification. The functions json_encode and json_decode provides the functionality, but it will be better if they were native supported.
For example, instead of doing:
$a=Array(Array("a"=>"b","c"=>CONST,"d"=>null),Array("e"=>1.23),Array("f"=>true));
You could do:
$a=[{"a":"b","c":CONST,"d":null},{"e":1.23},{"f":true}];
As you can see, JSON it's very compact and it's easy to read, also it distinguishes about arrays and hashes, so its better to understand.
I hope this comment will be considered for next versions.
Best regards.
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