On Tuesday, June 19, 2018 9:47:01 PM CDT Levi Morrison wrote: > I don't think I'm getting all the mail I am supposed to. I hope this gets > seen. > > I propose 2 functions *only* which I believe covers the use-cases that > all 4 of these do and more, with shorter names, and the ability to > discern whether the call succeeded or not. > > list($key, $value) = array_first($input); > // $key will be null if the call failed > > list($key, $value) = array_last($input); > // $key will be null if the call failed > > I have tested it with user-land functions and seems to work as > intended in all success and failure conditions. Verification that it > works as intended with internal functions is necessary but this seems > a much better proposal to me.
Can I vote "heck no" to any function that does multi-return, thus making it impossible to chain or pass directly to another function? That's an idiom that just doesn't make sense in PHP. --Larry Garfield
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