From:             valerio dot giuffrida88 at gmail dot com
Operating system: ubuntu
PHP version:      5.2SVN-2009-10-07 (snap)
PHP Bug Type:     Compile Failure
Bug description:  cannot use [...] after a function returning array

Description:
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If i want to get an element of an array directly returned by a function,
using [], it will prints 

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '[', expecting ',' or ';' in php
shell code on line 1

Reproduce code:
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$a = array("a","b","c");

echo array_values($a)[0]; //it (doesnt) works with any function that
retuns an array

Expected result:
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print to screen something like that:
a

Actual result:
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Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '[', expecting ',' or ';' in php
shell code on line 1

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http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49804&r=trysnapshot52
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Fixed in SVN:                        
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49804&r=fixed
Fixed in SVN and need be documented: 
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49804&r=needdocs
Fixed in release:                    
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49804&r=alreadyfixed
Need backtrace:                      
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49804&r=needtrace
Need Reproduce Script:               
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49804&r=needscript
Try newer version:                   
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49804&r=oldversion
Not developer issue:                 
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49804&r=support
Expected behavior:                   
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49804&r=notwrong
Not enough info:                     
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49804&r=notenoughinfo
Submitted twice:                     
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49804&r=submittedtwice
register_globals:                    
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49804&r=globals
PHP 4 support discontinued:          http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49804&r=php4
Daylight Savings:                    http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49804&r=dst
IIS Stability:                       
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49804&r=isapi
Install GNU Sed:                     
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49804&r=gnused
Floating point limitations:          
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49804&r=float
No Zend Extensions:                  
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49804&r=nozend
MySQL Configuration Error:           
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49804&r=mysqlcfg

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