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Subject: Re: function call chaining
From: mike@php.net (Michael Wallner)

On 01/19/2010 01:27 AM, Stanislav Malyshev wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I wrote a small patch that enables this kind of syntax in PHP:
> 
> foo()();

I'd rather see two other things that are missing, support for
dynamic object and array de-referencing like
(new class)->method() and get_array()["index"].

I honestly don't see func()()()() make anything better in the
world of a PHP programmer.

Regards,
Mike