Re: RFC - Array slice syntactic sugar

Hi! > To be the same, your example would have to be: > > // alternative old > foreach(array_slice($results, 0, 9, true) as $result) { > echo $result . "\n"; // 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 > } > > since this will preserve the array keys. You're not using the keys in foreach, so why you need to preserve them? > $array[*1:4] = [1,2,3,4]; // Sets array items 1 through 4 to be the > values (and keys if provided), of the array assigned. This may be not so easy to implement - imagine passing $array[*1:4] by reference. You should be able to do so, since $array[*1:4] is an lvalue for you, but what would you pass? What if $array changes in the meantime? There's a big can of worms here. And you already have array_splice which doesn't have these issues. -- Stas Malyshev smalyshev@gmail.com