On Wed, July 3, 2019 at 10:59 AM Nikita Popov <nikita....@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 3, 2019 at 4:41 PM Levi Morrison <le...@php.net> wrote:
> 
> > Was any analysis of usage done for top open source projects? I support
> > this direction, but would prefer to know its current impact before
> > voting.
> 
> 
> I checked top 2k projects with a 2-3 months outdated data set. Here is the
> analysis log: 
> https://gist.github.com/nikic/b5f811e0423bf051f4492cd6e0c0273e
> 
> Overall there were ~2.2k individual uses of alternative array syntax. To
> put that into context, there 888.3k total array accesses in the data set,
> which puts usage at about 0.25%. Uses are usually clustered, i.e. if
> alternative array syntax is used in a file, it will be used many times.

I did some additional analysis on the output of Nikita's script. The number
of curly brace usages is inflated somewhat due to duplicate packages. For
example, tecnick.com/tcpdf and tecnickcom/tcpdf both have 74 usages, and
are the same project which was renamed. Likewise, johnpbloch/wordpress-core
and roots/wordpress each have 182 usages, and they are both mirrors of the
WordPress core codebase. Another example is magento/zendframework1 which was
forked from zendframework/zendframework1 (almost half the curly brace usages
have been removed in the magento fork).

53 out of 89 total packages using the curly brace syntax use it 4 or fewer 
times.
92% of the usages in are in just 25 unique projects.

You can view my script and its output here:
https://gist.github.com/theodorejb/ba35fc8f72df8823e07c5f3b51870e00

Best regards,
Theodore
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