From: david dot c dot cook+php at gmail dot com
Operating system:
PHP version: 5.2.6
PHP Bug Type: Feature/Change Request
Bug description: Cannot use square brackets on a function
Description:
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Cannot use square brackets to directly reference array elements in the
returned value of a function. As a flexible language that can do pretty
much anything, it seems logical to be able to achieve this on one line,
without having to first assign the return value to a temporary variable.
Reproduce code:
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function test()
{
return array('a', 'b');
}
//desired
echo test()[0];
//workaround
//$temp = test();
//echo $temp[0];
Expected result:
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a
Actual result:
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Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '['
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