Re: http://bugs.php.net/bugs.php?id=8409

On Sat, Jan 06, 2001 at 04:58:53AM +0100, Cynic wrote: > Can arrays in PHP change a bit, or are they carved in stone > yet? Is, for example, change to extract() so that > > $a = array( 'aaa' , 'bbb' , 'ccc' ) ; > extract( $a , EXTR_PREFIX_ALL , 'prefix' ) ; > > creates $prefix_1 , $prefix_2, and $prefix_3 in current scope? > And what about changing it so that it returns? I'd like to see > extract() return maybe number of variables it created. This sounds like a good idea, should be backwards compatible. Except that I think the result should be creates $prefix0, $prefix1, and $prefix2 in your case. After all the indices are 0, 1 and 2, and adding _ doesn't seem natural. You can call your prefix prefix_ then. To return the number of variables sounds good to me, but won't it always be the same as the number of elements in the array? Stig