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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Additional splat operator usage
From: ua.san.alex@gmail.com ("S.A.N")

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I always wanted to have an analog XPath to access the array elements.
Something like:

<?php

$array = ['x' => ['p' => ['a' => ['t' => ['h' => 'value']]]]];
$xpath = ['x', 'p', 'a', 't', 'h'];
$value = $array[...$xpath];

var_dump($value); // string(5) "value"

?>

This is certainly a topic for another RFC, but this functionality will be
useful in PHP.

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