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Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2017 14:09:32 +0200
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To: Marco Pivetta <ocramius@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] RFC proposal - unpack iterator
From: krukowski.bartlomiej@gmail.com (=?UTF-8?Q?Bart=C5=82omiej_Krukowski?=)

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Hello,

Yes, this is exactly what I would like to achieve.

Best regards

2017-07-12 14:06 GMT+02:00 Marco Pivetta <ocramius@gmail.com>:

> On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 11:22 AM, Bart=C5=82omiej Krukowski <
> krukowski.bartlomiej@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>> From PHP 5.6 we have possibility to add variadic functions and unpacking
>> arrays via *...*
>> Would be nice to extend responsibility of *...*. Sometimes in code I can
>> find lines similar to the following:
>>
>> $result =3D array_merge(['some value'], ['some other value'], $array);
>>
>>
>> I would like to shorten this line to the following:
>>
>> $result =3D ['some value', ['some other value'], ...$array];
>>
>>
>> And even allow to unpack more than one array:
>>
>> $result =3D ['some value', ['some other value'], ...$array,
>> ...$secondArray];
>>
>>
>> Using new operator we can produce shorter and more clearable code. I wou=
ld
>> like to create RFC for my proposal. If you think idea can be useful,
>> please
>> give me an access for creating RFC.
>>
>> Best regards
>>
>
> Would this allow operations such as the following one?
>
> $a =3D [0];
> $b =3D [1];
> $otherArrays =3D [[2,3], [4,5]];
> $mergeAll =3D [...$a, ...$b, ...[...$otherArrays]]; // [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
>
> Marco Pivetta
>
> http://twitter.com/Ocramius
>
> http://ocramius.github.com/
>
>
>

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