I've always considered json an awesome machine to machine interchange format
(the most efficient one) but not the easiest to read for configuration or
manually defining anything.
I see nothing wrong with the initial example. Has worked well for years. :)
On May 31, 2011, at 3:43 PM, Marcel Esser <marcel.es...@croscon.com> wrote:
> From the perspective of someone that's just trying to get stuff done:
>
> $packet = array('response' => array('status' => 1,'message' => ''),'data' =>
> array('id' => 1, 'username' => 'john doe'));
>
> $packet = ['response': ['status': 1, 'message': '', 'data': ['id': 1,
> 'username': 'john doe'] ] ];
>
> The clarity improvement above is an exponential function that gets better and
> better the more deeply nested you are. I don't know anyone that needs the
> ability to support full JSON notation in PHP, but there are entirely too many
> deeply nested array() declarations with lots of tabs in our lives, especially
> when we start working with things like JSON and/or Mongo or xyz.
>
> That's all I wanted to say to this.
>
> Cheers,
> M.
>
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>
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