On Mon, 7 Apr 2025 at 02:48, Ayesh Karunaratne <ayesh@php.watch> wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Apr 7, 2025 at 2:05 AM Bilge <bi...@scriptfusion.com> wrote:
> > ... [snip] I suggest first proving there is a
> > legitimate need.
>
> I did a quick GitHub search for a common pattern of accessing an array
> value by using the `array_key_first` and `array_key_last` functions:
>
> ```php
> $value = $arr[array_key_first($results)];
> ```
>
> - `[array_key_first(`: over 3,700 results[^1]
> - `[array_key_last(`: over 4,300 results[^2]
>
> All of these hits can benefit from the proposed `array_first` and
> `array_last`.
(I used the wrong reply button earlier..)
I suspect this is just the tip of the iceberg. You should look for
reset() and end().
I get 336K when I look for "/(= |return |\(|\[)(reset|end)\(\$/ language:PHP".
I get 8.3K when I look for "/\[array_key_(first|last)\(/ language:PHP".
There are more matches for "/reset\(" and "/end\(", but we only want
matches where the return value is used.
And indeed I want to never have to use reset() and end() again!
I don't recall when I ever intentionally used the internal array
pointer. Only as a workaround to get a first or last element.
-- Andreas
