Re: RFC - Array slice syntactic sugar

Hi! > This may be not so easy to implement - imagine passing $array[*1:4] by > reference. > > > This would be the same as doing > $array[array_keys($old_array)[1]] = $new_array[0]; > $array[array_keys($old_array)[2]] = $new_array[1]; > $array[array_keys($old_array)[3]] = $new_array[2]; > $array[array_keys($old_array)[4]] = $new_array[3]; I don't think you understood what I am saying. Lvalues in PHP can be used not only in assignment context, but also in passing-by-ref context, and in that case I have no idea how you pass $array[*1:4] by reference - what is actually passed? > There is the array_splice method that can do the same thing, however > this to me is less obvious as to what is happening: I don't see any reason why it would be less obvious, if you bother to look at man page of array_splice once. -- Stas Malyshev smalyshev@gmail.com