Re: Re: [BULK] [PHP] Use array returned by function directly?

Roman Neuhauser wrote:

# neuhauser@sigpipe.cz / 2007-01-29 15:27:21 +0000:

# crash #assert(2 == returns_array()['c']);

# still crash #assert(2 == returns_array()['c']);

s/crash/syntax error/ You can do this in Perl:

my $c = (fn(@a))[2]; But in PHP, this is a syntax error: $c = (fn($a))[2]; Also, it's not clear what the original syntax is meant to do:

       explode($needle, $array)[3]
explode() takes a string and converts it to an array based on the separator expression.  This might make sense:

explode($needle, $array[3]) where $array[3] is a string. But explode($needle, $array), it turns out, simply returns the string "Array". -- _____________________ Myron Turner http://www.room535.org http://www.bstatzero.org http://www.mturner.org/XML_PullParser/