> > "Then why not use brick/varexporter?"
As much as I'm pleased that people use this library, I consider it a shim, waiting for PHP to ultimately provide the same functionality. See the (object) cast for stdClass, that was supported by varexporter but was later added to var_export(). I don't see a reason not to follow with the short array syntax; the only expectation of people using var_export(), AFAIK, is to get valid PHP code; they don't care about the syntax, which will be retro-compatible as far as PHP 5.4, if that's even a consideration when PHP 8.0 is released. — Benjamin
