Duplicate keys in array literals?

[luka8088]

On 28.11.2013. 21:01, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> On 2013-11-28 18:55, luka8088 wrote:
> 
>> PHP also allows it:
>>
>> $data = array('a' => 1, 'a' => 2);
>>
>> And I find it to be only a source of bugs.
> 
> Arrays are a weird beast in PHP. They're both arrays and associative
> arrays, at the same time, somehow.
> 

They are associative array which can emulate array like behavior. But
unfortunately that has also in my experience turned out to be just
another source of bugs.