Improved array dereferencing

I posted this to the "PHP Into the Future" forum on Zend.com and no one responded, so now I'm posting it here, though I'm not sure how directly relevant it is to this list: I don't know if this has come up, but I think it would be great to have improved array dereferencing support in PHP so that you can dereference an element of an anonymous array (such as an array returned by a function), like you can with a list in Perl, e.g. (stat($file))[8], or in PHP (parse_url( $URL ))[ 'host' ]. Improved object dereferencing support is included in the Zend v2 overview, but I don't see anything about arrays. Can someone tell me if this functionality is in PHP's future? Jesse McCarthy