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Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2012 18:17:28 +0200
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To: Andrew Faulds <ajfweb@googlemail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [request #48542] addition of optional second parameter
 to array_shift/array_pop which gives key
From: jpauli@php.net (jpauli)

On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 6:11 PM, Andrew Faulds <ajfweb@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I saw this bug report (feature request): https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=48542
>
> The person there proposes that array_shift and array_pop should have
> an optional second parameter, which can be passed a reference to a
> variable in which the key can be returned, so you can pop the key and
> value at the same time, rather than having to get the key first, then
> pop the pair to get the value.
>
> Thoughts? I'm new to PHP development, I thought this might be a useful
> feature that I could relatively easily implement. Also, I can
> personally see how this could be useful having used arrays as
> essentially look-up tables before.

I'm +1 as this may be useful and there is no BC break.

Julien