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One of the major deficiencies in the development of many projects is that there is no roadmap or strategy available other than in the developers' heads. The XP team publishes its decisions by documenting change requests in form of RFCs.

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Deprecate array() syntax #311

Closed thekid closed 8 years ago

thekid commented 8 years ago

Scope of Change

This RFC suggests deprecating the array() syntax.

Rationale

Short array syntax was introduced with PHP 5.4 and has no downsides. Have one way of writing stuff is better!

Functionality

The long array syntax will be deprecated:

[x] Inside code - by updating the coding standards document
[x] Inside annotations - by removing support for it
Security considerations

None

Speed impact

Faster for annotations.

Dependencies

XP8