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Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 12:41:05 +0100
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To: Michael Wallner <mike@php.net>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: function call chaining
From: pierre.php@gmail.com (Pierre Joye)

On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 12:31 PM, Michael Wallner <mike@php.net> wrote:
> 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.

Exactly.

Cheers,
-- 
Pierre

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