From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Operating system:
PHP version: 4.1.0
PHP Bug Type: Feature/Change Request
Bug description: Fetch multiple elements from an array
I was thinking about a new feature. Fetching multiple elements would be a
cool feature, wouldn't it? This would look like this;
$array[0,1];
or
$array['name','address'];
and would allow constructions like this:
for($i=0;$i<count($array);$i+=2) {
list($odd,$even)=$array[$i,$i+1];
}
instead of:
for($i=0;$i<count($array);$i+=2) {
$odd=$array[$i];
$even=$array[$i+1];
}
This syntactically follows the specification of using the "comma" to
provide multiple elements/indices, such as it's already the case for
functions. Therefore adding this feature wouldn't deteriorate the
code-readability.
Also, I cannot think of any way using this feature to encourage bad coding
practices.
$array from the above example could be a datafile from a guestbook where
always a pair of lines represent "username" and "comment" (instead of using
"|" or anything else as a delimitor).
Your comments?
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