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benwerd on Dec 17, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: PHP functions originally bucketed by strlen, were ...

PHP doesn't insist on the array() keyword, currently. The mixing of associative and sequential arrays is ambiguous, although you can think of them all as being associative; it's just, PHP will supply some keys if you don't provide any. Whether that's kludgey or acceptable is up for discussion. (I don't mind it at all.)

kbenson on Dec 17, 2013 [–]

It's not so much that I think it's kludgy, as much as I think it may be a harmful abstraction, as faintly outlined in my sibling comment.

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