Re: Feature request: anonymous usage of returned values

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 > > [ derek p. moore ]-------------------[ > http://hackunix.org/~derekm/pubkey.asc ] > [ derekm@hackunix.org ]----------------------------[ bfd2 fad6 1014 80c9 aaa8 ] > [ http://hackunix.org/~derekm/ ]-------------------[ a4a0 f449 > 3461 a443 51b9 ] > > -- > PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- Please always Cc to me when replying to me on the lists. GnuPG Key: http://guru.josefine.at/~mfischer/C2272BD0.asc "Mind if I MFH ?" "What QA did you do on it?" "the usual?" "ah... none :)"