Re: Suggestion: echo function(var)[0];

On 4 June 2010 08:18, mathieu.suen <mathieu.suen@easyflirt.com> wrote: > Hi > > Why not something more generic. > Someone could think of a ValueNode. > > Then it could be use for object, array, any primitive type ... > > I will take the ValueNode as a non terminal grammar node. > So first we could do that: > > ValueNode->method(); > ValueNode::sMethod(); > ValueNode[]; > foo(ValueNode); > echo ValueNode; > $e = ValueNode; > ... > > And a ValueNode could be define as: > > ValueNode : > >      NewStatement >    | FunctionCall >    | PrimitiveValue >    | '(' ValueNode ')' >    | ...; > > This would allow all this syntax: > > (new A())->foo(); > foo(new A()); > foo->bar()[1]; > foo()[5]; > > and many others. > > > On 06/04/2010 03:19 AM, Kalle Sommer Nielsen wrote: >> >> Hi Tig >> >> 2010/6/4 Tig<tigger.on@gmail.com>: >> >>> >>> Would be at all possible to implement this kind of shortcut? >>> >> >> Its called array-dereferencing and it was proposed countless times, >> including by myself. There is an RFC for this[1] and it was planned on >> the old PHP6 todo at the PDT[2]. >> >> [1] http://wiki.php.net/rfc/functionarraydereferencing >> [2] http://wiki.php.net/summits/pdmnotesmay09#php_6 (see >> point #13) >> >> > > > --Mathieu Suen > > > > Not an expert in this area, but does this mechanism limit you to using single dimensional arrays? -- ----- Richard Quadling "Standing on the shoulders of some very clever giants!" EE : http://www.experts-exchange.com/M_248814.html EE4Free : http://www.experts-exchange.com/becomeAnExpert.jsp Zend Certified Engineer : http://zend.com/zce.php?c=ZEND002498&r=213474731 ZOPA : http://uk.zopa.com/member/RQuadling