On Wed, 8 Apr 2020, Sherif Ramadan wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 8, 2020 at 9:22 AM Benjamin Morel <benjamin.mo...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > > VAR_EXPORT_NO_INDEX
> >
> > Note that I wouldn't consider a BC break to change var_export()'s 
> > behaviour to always discard indexes when they're numeric, I'm not 
> > sure this should even be an option!
> >
> >
> Well, it might if people are testing the output of var_export(), like in
> the phpt tests. I wouldn't have considered the short array syntax a BC
> break either if it weren't for that little pot hole.

It's different. Changing from long to short array syntax makes it 
unparsable by older versions of PHP.

I still believe that none of these options are needed. var_export() has 
been added to generate PHP parser readable code. And these options are 
extra complexity adds no new functionality.

cheers,
Derick

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