I've brought this up on the Zend Engine2 list a while ago.
The result was that it is not planned to support
dereferencing of arrays from e.g. return value on the fly.
- Markus
On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 07:26:26PM -0500, Derek Moore wrote :
> I've been playin' around with Horde and IMP lately... And I've done a lot of
> PHP and Perl work in the past... One of the things I really like about PHP is
> how it has most of the really cool features of Perl that I enjoy, but lacks
> some of the things that annoy me about Perl.
>
> I was making some modifications to IMP's configurations when I tried to use a
> feature of Perl that I thought for sure would have been carried over to PHP.
>
> I'm not sure the exact vernacular to describe this feature, but Perl allows
> you to anonymously use whatever was returned by a function--e.g., $year =
> (localtime($time))[5], so $year takes only the year value of the data returned
> by localtime() instead of the entire array.
>
> In IMP I was trying to do:
>
> $conf['spam']['email'] = 'postmaster@' . (posix_uname())['nodename'];
>
> But instead I have to do:
>
> $uname = posix_uname();
> $conf['spam']['email'] = 'postmaster@' . $uname['nodename'];
>
>
> I realize this is nitpicking a little bit, but being able to handle returned
> values in such a manner is quite, quite useful. Or does PHP provide this
> functionality through some other syntax?
>
> Anyways, I just thought I'd say somethin' about it. Btw, please reply-to-all,
> as I'm not subscribed to this list.
>
> Okay, I'm done now,
>
> Derek
>
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