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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC proposal] Syntactic sugar for array push()
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From: weedpacket@varteg.nz (Morgan)

On 2025-09-13 22:21, Rowan Tommins [IMSoP] wrote:
> On 12 September 2025 20:02:04 BST, "Dušan Kreheľ" <dusankrehel@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Since we have an extremely well-established array_push shorthand, so don't need a new one, we could perhaps have "<" for "at start", and "-" for "pop":
> 
> $foo[<] = $toUnshift;
> $shifted = $foo[-<];
> 

Which looks like it would

$foo[0] $foo[1] $foo[2] <-- put $toUnShift here

rather than

put $toUnshift here --> $foo[0] $foo[1] $foo[2]