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Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2016 20:53:19 -0500
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To: Andrea Faulds <ajf@ajf.me>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Allow specifying keys in list()
From: bishop@php.net (Bishop Bettini)

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On Sat, Jan 16, 2016 at 9:32 PM, Andrea Faulds <ajf@ajf.me> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> Here's an RFC that would extend the syntax of list() to be more useful
> with associative arrays:
>
> https://wiki.php.net/rfc/list_keys
>
> Please read it and tell me your thoughts.
>

Nice, Andrea, thanks! Destructuring is quite handy.

I wonder if there is opportunity to include array gathering. Something
along the lines of:

list ('foo' => $foo, ...$rest) = [ 'foo' => 1, 'bar' => 2, 'baz' => 3];
assert $foo === 1;
assert $rest === [ 'bar' => 2, 'baz' => 3];

What do you think?

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