Re: Feature request

Richard Lynch schrieb:

On Thu, November 9, 2006 9:13 pm, Andi Gutmans wrote:

<?php function foo() { return array(1,2,3,4,5,6); } echo foo()[4]; // <---- it that

It looks a bit perl-ish indeed but I don't see much trouble in having that it people really need it...

-0.3 :-) The thing is, I see this ending up with people starting to write unintelligible code: echo {$$(foo()[4])}()[17][13]; The 4th element of the return array from foo() is a function name which returns a 2-D array... And, honestly, if you write code like that in the first place, you ought to be shot. :-) Saving a few keystrokes is nifty, but it ends up costing far more in maintenance than its worth in this proposed syntax, imho. 'Course, I don't *have* to use it, so I just won't do that, but I'll end up having to maintain/fix somebody else's mess that DID use it, which is where the -0.3 comes from. If the code is too messed up with this kind of junk, I just won't take the job. I'd rather flip burgers than work on code like this. :-)

Well, I think, a language has to support every coding. It should be the job of a good programmer to write code, that can be maintained in an easy way. That is not the job of the language. A good language supports the developer in writing clean code, it does not bind him. I like the possibilities of this syntax and I can imagine, that using this style can improve some codes (p.e. in helper-classes).