Req #68178 [Com]: JSON Native Support

Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=68178&edit=1

 ID:                 68178
 Comment by:         cmbecker69 at gmx dot de
 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:

Not long ago a similar solution has been proposed as RFC[1], but
it was rejected.

[1] <https://wiki.php.net/rfc/bare_name_array_literal>


Previous Comments:
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[2014-10-08 08:19:43] php at xkr dot es

Thanks datibbaw, first heard about that, I've just seen it was introduced in PHP 5.4, it's a great approximation to the JSON structure, although is not compatible for the arrow, but at least it's cleaner. I hope anyway the consideration of a full support will be great. If you think it will not be an improvement, close the suggestion. Thanks again.

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[2014-10-08 01:51:59] [email protected]

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.

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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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