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Do hashes in PHP still break if one of their keys starts with a number?

This[1] works fine in every version of PHP since at least v4.3.0 (released in 2002). Do you have a concrete example of this supposed breakage?

I think the parent was referring to this: http://phpsadness.com/sad/47

It seems so, my memory must be from using an older version.