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<title>Episode #19: Deprecate curly brace syntax for accessing array elements and string offsets</title>

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Episode 19 — Deprecate curly brace syntax for accessing array elements and string offsets — with Theodore Brown
https://wiki.php.net/rfc/deprecate_curly_braces_array_access — https://github.com/php/php-src/pull/4416/files

<example>
&lt;?php
$🌻fibon = [ 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, 144 ];
echo $🌻fibon[4], "\n";
echo $🌻fibon{4}, "\n";

$🎄spruce = "Christmas Tree";
echo $🎄spruce[4], "\n";
echo $🎄spruce{4}, "\n";
?>
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<blurb>In PHP 7.4:</blurb>
<example class="error">
Deprecated: Array and string offset access syntax with curly braces is deprecated
Deprecated: Array and string offset access syntax with curly braces is deprecated
</example>
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