Re: substr/array_slice in []

Emil Hernvall wrote: > On a related note. Code like: > > $foo = array("a" => range(1,10), "b" => range(11,20)); > print_r($foo[][0]); > > results in > > Fatal error: Cannot use [] for reading in Command line code on line 3 > > It would be incredibly useful when handling regular two-dimensional > database-resultsets. Essentially, what I'm after is things like this: > > $result = $pdo->fetchAll(PDO::FETCH_ASSOC); > $result = array_combine(result[]['my_id'], $result); > > If I prepared a patch that made this possible, would it be considered > for inclusion? Is there any issues I've overlooked or other > objections? Yes, I object on the basis that I have no idea what that syntax should do by looking at it. The auto-incrementing [] array syntax has always been a write-only construct. Auto-incrementing on a read doesn't make any sense which means you are overloading that syntax to mean something completely different. -Rasmus