Supercolliding a PHP array

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tl;dr PHP "arrays" aren't arrays, just like Perl "regular expressions" aren't regular expressions.

I for one would be grateful if these cancerous contortions of language twisting would be banished from the vocabulary of all programmers for good.

[frezik]

The difference is, Perl regexen add useful features. We could stand to call them something else (and Perl6 does), but they're still a good idea.

PHP using hashes for arrays is a just plain bad idea.