Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:32696 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 28463 invoked by uid 1010); 8 Oct 2007 05:37:59 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 28448 invoked from network); 8 Oct 2007 05:37:58 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 8 Oct 2007 05:37:58 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=tony@daylessday.org; sender-id=pass Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=tony@daylessday.org; spf=pass; sender-id=pass Received-SPF: pass (pb1.pair.com: domain daylessday.org designates 89.208.40.236 as permitted sender) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: tony@daylessday.org X-Host-Fingerprint: 89.208.40.236 mail.daylessday.org Linux 2.6 Received: from [89.208.40.236] ([89.208.40.236:57565] helo=daylessday.org) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 89/1B-31471-532C9074 for ; Mon, 08 Oct 2007 01:37:57 -0400 Received: from [192.168.1.34] (ppp83-237-1-64.pppoe.mtu-net.ru [83.237.1.64]) by daylessday.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 616E06400EF; Mon, 8 Oct 2007 09:37:54 +0400 (MSD) Message-ID: <4709C231.1080304@daylessday.org> Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2007 09:37:53 +0400 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20070801) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rasmus Lerdorf CC: Emil Hernvall , internals@lists.php.net References: <200710042005.30734.larry@garfieldtech.com> <285930281.20071006200938@marcus-boerger.de> <200710061338.47307.larry@garfieldtech.com> <4707D8AA.9060905@daylessday.org> <4707ED46.6040206@daylessday.org> <3b46aad60710071639x579be029ta36868b1715cbc0@mail.gmail.com> <47096F5D.2010508@lerdorf.com> In-Reply-To: <47096F5D.2010508@lerdorf.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] substr/array_slice in [] From: tony@daylessday.org (Antony Dovgal) On 08.10.2007 03:44, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: >> $result = $pdo->fetchAll(PDO::FETCH_ASSOC); >> $result = array_combine(result[]['my_id'], $result); >> >> If I prepared a patch that made this possible, would it be considered >> for inclusion? Is there any issues I've overlooked or other >> objections? > > Yes, I object on the basis that I have no idea what that syntax should > do by looking at it. The auto-incrementing [] array syntax has always > been a write-only construct. Auto-incrementing on a read doesn't make > any sense which means you are overloading that syntax to mean something > completely different. This syntax makes no sense in write context to me either. -1 -- Wbr, Antony Dovgal