PHP: less ugly syntax for named parameters / arrays?

Question

Here\'s what I am trying to accomplish:

function foo($args) {
 switch($args[\'type\']) {
  case \'bar\':
  bar($args[\'data\']);   // do something
  break;
          


        

Answer 1

No. Alternative syntaxes for creating arrays have been proposed several times (the link lists 5 separate threads in the dev mailing list), but they were rejected.