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> The best part of short array syntax is that now you don't need named parameters to be supported by the language

Unless you've ever used languages with actual first-class keyword arguments (Python) and languages using hashes as pseudo-kwargs (Ruby, JavaScript). Then you know it's no substitute.

Also, you could already do just that in PHP before, it simply took 5 more characters.



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