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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Suggestion: echo function(var)[0];
From: tigger.on@gmail.com (Tig)

On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 11:19 AM, Kalle Sommer Nielsen <kalle@php.net> wrote:
> Hi Tig
>
> 2010/6/4 Tig <tigger.on@gmail.com>:
>> Would be at all possible to implement this kind of shortcut?
>
> Its called array-dereferencing and it was proposed countless times,
> including by myself. There is an RFC for this[1] and it was planned on
> the old PHP6 todo at the PDT[2].
>
> [1] http://wiki.php.net/rfc/functionarraydereferencing
> [2] http://wiki.php.net/summits/pdmnotesmay09#php_6 (see point #13)
>

Thanks Kalle, I had no idea what it would be called, so I had a hard
time searching for it :]

I noticed that it has been 'declined'  - Date: May 01, 2009
(declined), http://wiki.php.net/rfc/functionarraydereferencing

but, as pointed out at point 13 on
http://wiki.php.net/summits/pdmnotesmay09#php_6

function call chaining (f()() if f() returns function), and array
dereferencing (f()[0]) - (Stas)

So does this mean array-dereferencing was original declined but still
a possible for PHP 6?
That is how I'm reading it, but just want to make sure.

Again, thanks.

-Tig