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Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2010 21:36:05 -0400
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Suggestion: echo function(var)[0];
From: jonwage@gmail.com (Jonathan Wage)

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Hi,

Has anyone attempted a patch for this? Or does anyone have an idea of
the feasibility? Is it technically possible in a good/clean way?

- Jon

On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 9:29 PM, Tig <tigger.on@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>
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