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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] RFC Draft: Comprehensions
From: d.takken@xs4all.nl (Dik Takken)

On 13-03-19 23:30, Rowan Collins wrote:
> At risk of complicating things further, might the solution to that be to
> have a shorter syntax for iterator_to_array in general?
> 
> It's a shame array-casts are defined for arbitrary objects, else we
> could have (array)$iterator - and therefore (array)[foreach ($users as
> $user) yield $user->firstName]

A shorter alternative for iterator_to_array() could work as well I
think. Casting would have been stellar, but not feasible. However, could
using the array() built-in work? Something like:

    array([foreach ($users as $user) yield $user->firstName])

Just thinking out loud here...

Regards,
Dik Takken