Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:85337 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 36808 invoked from network); 20 Mar 2015 21:30:41 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 20 Mar 2015 21:30:41 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=smalyshev@gmail.com; sender-id=pass Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=smalyshev@gmail.com; spf=pass; sender-id=pass Received-SPF: pass (pb1.pair.com: domain gmail.com designates 209.85.192.181 as permitted sender) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: smalyshev@gmail.com X-Host-Fingerprint: 209.85.192.181 mail-pd0-f181.google.com Received: from [209.85.192.181] ([209.85.192.181:33046] helo=mail-pd0-f181.google.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id DA/BC-64120-1819C055 for ; Fri, 20 Mar 2015 16:30:41 -0500 Received: by pdnc3 with SMTP id c3so119831230pdn.0 for ; Fri, 20 Mar 2015 14:30:38 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=fewzyNFNj0zNfG+QuDQElRGdEAEaOTpzlnOHMFKznv8=; b=KLL96v3e4MYZstW3VT/P8AD25dbK3m0FrrRUfgZs6eFnjJoIP8Ox2I3tfy8Sax9pB8 arfH7RNb3/uOw3TZwwp7cilxHtTL++KgmUV+QxMmDon6ms/V4suYxIzBwCC9Cqg9fETy 5Jaa3v7uv4P61zf58NaB6l1+4ovLoKzQblL7/DHskHrM5A5P0hKCbp8BgDztpf4+m6zs Zr4Yq37gUGFoD4lygZbmSLOKVGH+hasdrXXdxcLUnuInnWLG2JpOrx3b+Aw9IahTEpVe tXu/ckhfbT3lA3dL5doav9WpIo3UxA5MHf9J5HOs1g9UwcQ96ffoxPaMpBy80teX5z4J 5lyQ== X-Received: by 10.70.54.169 with SMTP id k9mr37130163pdp.135.1426887038391; Fri, 20 Mar 2015 14:30:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Stas-Air.local (108-66-6-48.lightspeed.sntcca.sbcglobal.net. [108.66.6.48]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id ve3sm13921pbc.22.2015.03.20.14.30.37 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Fri, 20 Mar 2015 14:30:37 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <550C917D.5000904@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2015 14:30:37 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.9; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alex Bowers CC: PHP Internals References: <550B5A81.1090706@gmail.com> <550C8879.70002@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] RFC - Array slice syntactic sugar From: smalyshev@gmail.com (Stanislav Malyshev) Hi! > It would give different results, for a reason. There is currently no way > to get an array item by positional index, whilst preserving the keys. I imagine having such way may be useful. However, reusing array access syntax for that does not look like a good idea, since it would look like existing array syntax but work completely different. Why not use array_slice for it? -- Stas Malyshev smalyshev@gmail.com