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Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2007 10:28:49 -0800
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Syntactic improvement to array
From: truth@proposaltech.com (Todd Ruth)

Would this be legal?

function f() {
    return [ 1, 2 ];
}

$x = [ $a, $b ] = f();

In the end, would we have...?
$a = 1;
$b = 2;
$x = array(1,2);

I'm not trying to be positive or negative about the
syntax.  I'm just "testing" somewhat edge cases.

- Todd

On Mon, 2007-02-05 at 10:06 -0800, Andrei Zmievski wrote:
...
> The way I view [] is that it creates an array "context". When the 
> context is an RHS, it instantiates an array. When it's an LHS, the 
> context deconstructs the array.
> 
> -Andrei
>