> in PHP you can just use arrays ^^ Which thankfully aren't as painful now! $cfg = [ 'path' => '.', 'mask' => 655 ]; Otherwise, if we

> in PHP you can just use arrays ^^ Which thankfully aren't as painful now! $cfg = [ 'path' => '.', 'mask' => 655 ]; Otherwise, if we still had to write "array" each time, I'd be more supportive of the object-literal, although I do think there's value in the literal but mostly to make the language similar to other languages with similar constructs (js, py).