On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 9:03 PM, Marcel Laverdet <[email protected]> wrote:
> func()[1] not being allowed in PHP is just a silly deficiency in the
> language grammar and runtime. I "fixed" it in 2009 with a rewrite rule
> (right before APC in the compile chain). func()[1] -> _helper(func(), 1). I
> have a habit of not accepting languages the way they're given to me I guess.

You are right, the problems don't compare well, but I compared the
community reactions when yet another time someone new mentions it, yet
another time, and everybody goes "oh no, not again. stop trolling us.
you can work around this or that or thut way." but in the core its a
silly deficiency.

I suppose when generators come to V8 we might see a new generation of
workarounds 'ehhh I mean solutions.

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