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Subject: array(...)[]
From: k-php-dev@ailis.de (Klaus Reimer)

Hi,

I've just seen that finally it's possible to do 
"$object->getOtherObject()->doSomething()" with PHP5 which was not 
possible in PHP4. But I wonder why something like this still does not work:

   $object->returnArray()[$index]
   returnArray()[$index]
   array(1,2,3,4)[$index]

It would be really cool if a future version of PHP understands the above 
syntax because currently it's really annoying to access an array element 
returned from a method/function because the return value must be stored 
in a temporary variable before it is possible to access elements from 
that array.

Bye
K