> When people want to pick nits about this or significant whitespace > it makes me think that there must very little variance between > the languages if T

> When people want to pick nits about this or significant whitespace > it makes me think that there must very little variance between > the languages if THIS is the issue that deserves scrutiny. For the record: this is not the issue that deserves scrutiny. The other issues are more significant. However this "short array syntax" is representative of PHP's sluggish internal development process. [] is very nearly the de-facto solution for creating arrays, and yet the PHP core devs have, for two years, rejected[1] patches that implement it on ridiculous grounds. [1]: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/shortsyntaxforarrays https://wiki.php.net/rfc/shortsyntaxforarrays