Hi!
At risk of turning this into a longer-than-necessary discussion, I
believe a new RFC is required at this point. Making [ and ] work as
(T_ARRAY, '(') and (')'), respectively is no longer good enough, for
the main reason you've pointed out: JSON is becoming ubiquitous;
actual first-class JSON would be very valuable to me.
It looks appealing, though if you think about security implications, I'm
not sure it'd be actually as useful as one might think - i.e., you'd
rarely want to eval() a JSON string, and absent that native JSON may not
help you much.
That aside, I think [] as array syntax is long overdue and would improve
PHP readability and compatibility with other dynamic languages.
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