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Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2006 23:48:28 +0100
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Feature request
From: helly@php.net (Marcus Boerger)

Hello Dmitry,

  the major problem here is that people have a wrong understanding of what
it would do. Without return by reference it creates copies which not only
makes assignments useless but also read code very slow. To overcome this,
we would need to discuss another error message's fate/severity and live
with yet another hard to understand, pretty much misleading feature.

best regards
marcus

Thursday, November 9, 2006, 10:21:45 PM, you wrote:

> Hey guys.

> What are you thinking about adding this feature:

> <?php
> function foo()
> {
>     return array(1,2,3,4,5,6);
> }

> echo foo()[4];  //  <---- it that
> // or may be (foo())[4] ?


> // instead of
> $var = foo();
> echo $var[4];
?>>




Best regards,
 Marcus