On Tue, Oct 17, 2023 at 3:43 PM Brandon Jackson <brandonja...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > There is also a technique to make the return value `[$key => $value]` > instead of just a value, but this loses simplicity. > > Hmm, since the naming array_first and array_last doesn't clarify that > it's returning a key or a value. What if it returned both as ?[key, > value]. > > That opens quite a few use possibilities: > $first = array_first($array); > $value = $first[1] ?? throw new Exception(); > > [,$value] = array_first($array) ?? [null, null]; > [,$value] = array_first($array) ?? throw new Exception(); > This function signature can be accomplished by userland once we have `array_key_first()` and `array_first()`. It's much better to keep `array_first()` as simple as possible and let everyone build their own approach to go about it since we have so many approaches. -- Marco Deleu
