Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=45906&edit=1

 ID:                 45906
 Comment by:         php dot net at doppy dot nl
 Reported by:        david dot c dot cook+php at gmail dot com
 Summary:            Cannot use square brackets on a function
 Status:             Open
 Type:               Feature/Change Request
 Package:            Feature/Change Request
 PHP Version:        5.2.6
 Block user comment: N
 Private report:     N

 New Comment:

This is implemented in PHP 5.4.
This request can be closed.


Previous Comments:
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[2008-08-25 02:35:53] david dot c dot cook+php at gmail dot com

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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