Re: Why is some_function()[some_index] invalid syntax?

Nathan Nobbe wrote:

On Jan 10, 2008 11:00 PM, Arlen Christian Mart Cuss <celtic@sairyx.org> wrote:

Hi there, Why is it that if I try to evaluate an index of an array returned by a function immediately, a syntax error is produced? (unexpected '[', expecting ',' or ';')

thats hillarious, i literally brought this up at the office like 2 days ago. ill tell you why its really lame (imho), because php5 supports syntax like this: function someFunc() { return date_create(); } echo someFunc()->format('Y-m-d'); that is, it allows you to chain a method invocation to the invocation of a function if the function returns an object. -nathan

So, make all your functions return objects, and have the object have a method called get or index or something like that that returns the index requested. :) Better yet, make everything an object: String, Numeric, Array, etc