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		andypants on March 25, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: PHP-Snow - A concise, dry and beautiful language t... `[] instead of {} for a map` PHP uses [] for both list and map types. I don't think there's any difference between the two types in PHP. All lists are maps.

daeken on March 26, 2012 [–]

But we're talking syntax, not behavior. There's no reason they couldn't use {} to indicate maps and [] to indicate lists, even if they're the same data type. The point of this language is to be a cleaner syntax on top of PHP, so syntactical sugar like that is a Good Thing (TM).

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