Re: [RFC] Allow specifying keys in list()

hi Andrea, I very much like this proposal. Good work as usual! The only part where I think we should not rely on list is the future scope. I can see the logic that leads to use list for named arguments. However I really think it is a very different topic and having to use list to define arguments, it sounds like a hack to solve another long due feature. Anyway, as it is not part of this RFC, I will ignore it for now :) Keep the good work, Cheers, Pierre On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 9:07 AM, Andrea Faulds <ajf@ajf.me> wrote: > Hi Bishop, > > > Bishop Bettini wrote: >> >> On Sat, Jan 16, 2016 at 9:32 PM, Andrea Faulds <ajf@ajf.me> wrote: >> >>> Hi everyone, >>> >>> Here's an RFC that would extend the syntax of list() to be more useful >>> with associative arrays: >>> >>> https://wiki.php.net/rfc/list_keys >>> >>> Please read it and tell me your thoughts. >>> >> >> Nice, Andrea, thanks! Destructuring is quite handy. >> >> I wonder if there is opportunity to include array gathering. Something >> along the lines of: >> >> list ('foo' => $foo, ...$rest) = [ 'foo' => 1, 'bar' >> => 2, 'baz' => 3]; >> assert $foo === 1; >> assert $rest === [ 'bar' => 2, 'baz' => 3]; >> >> What do you think? > > > That might be useful, and it's certainly intuitive. In languages with linked > lists like Haskell, you can pattern-match the rest of a list, so there's a > precedent. Though with linked lists it's an O(1) operation, while this is > O(n). > > I don't think that should go into this RFC specifically, though, but it > could be a future enhancement. > > > Thanks! > -- > Andrea Faulds > https://ajf.me/ > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > -- Pierre @pierrejoye | http://www.libgd.org