PHP Shortcut to Set Two Values at Once

I’ve been coding in php for seven years, and doing it professionally for four. Until today, I never knew you could use a syntax like this to set the value of more than one variable.

I’m not sure why I’m so giddy about finding this shortcut. Is it really so much more troublesome to type out something like,

It took two extra keystrokes. A semicolon and a stroke of the enter key. But for some reason, I’m giddy like a schoolgirl.

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