note 102790 deleted from function.compact by danbrown

Note Submitter: ryan at punchkickinteractive dot com ---- There certainly is a time and place for compact(), but my official stance on it is that it should never be nested within another function or class method. I've written a simple example below to show how it does not evaluate as an array until AFTER the outer method has been started. <?php /* * RUN THIS SCRIPT... * Outputs "Thomas the Cat" * * THEN UNCOMMENT THE LAST LINE... * PHP Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '[' */ $tom = "Thomas the Cat"; $jerry = "Jerry the Mouse"; $cat_and_mouse = compact('tom', 'jerry'); print_r($cat_and_mouse['tom']); // UNCOMMENT THE NEXT LINE TO SEE THE 'compact' TEST // print_r(compact('tom', 'jerry')['tom']); ?>