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What's the dominant naming convention for variables in PHP: camelcase or underscores?

The consensus seems to be that one should follow the convention of the platform they're developing for. See: Underscore or camelcase? Naming conventions: camelCase versus underscore_case? However, ...
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Readability vs minimalism/compactness/conciseness in language design: are they antagonistic?

Currently, there is a discussion in the PHP-Internals mailing list regarding the implementation of a short syntax for arrays and objects, mainly [1, 2, ...] for standard arrays, ['one'=>1, ...