Comments on: I really don’t know what you mean http://finite.grimoire.ca/2010/01/indexing-expressions/ PHP is not my favourite language. Wed, 02 Feb 2011 17:11:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Owen Jacobson http://finite.grimoire.ca/2010/01/indexing-expressions/comment-page-1/#comment-64 Owen Jacobson Tue, 02 Mar 2010 23:37:33 +0000 http://finite.grimoire.ca/?p=26#comment-64 That's probably a consequence of PHP's "organic" development: array indexing has existed for most of PHP's life, while the <code>-></code> dereference operator was introduced in PHP 4, when the PHP community had started to grok the idea that expressions should be interchangable. That’s probably a consequence of PHP’s “organic” development: array indexing has existed for most of PHP’s life, while the -> dereference operator was introduced in PHP 4, when the PHP community had started to grok the idea that expressions should be interchangable.

]]> By: seutje http://finite.grimoire.ca/2010/01/indexing-expressions/comment-page-1/#comment-63 seutje Tue, 02 Mar 2010 12:20:29 +0000 http://finite.grimoire.ca/?p=26#comment-63 what really intrigues me is that <code> function foo() { $bar = new stdClass(); $bar->baz = 'meh'; return $bar; } print foo()->baz; // prints 'meh' </code> seems to work fine what really intrigues me is that

function foo() {
$bar = new stdClass();
$bar->baz = 'meh';
return $bar;
}
print foo()->baz; // prints 'meh'

seems to work fine

]]> By: Owen Jacobson http://finite.grimoire.ca/2010/01/indexing-expressions/comment-page-1/#comment-4 Owen Jacobson Tue, 12 Jan 2010 02:15:44 +0000 http://finite.grimoire.ca/?p=26#comment-4 Ooh. Is there a bug for this somewhere? Searching the PHP bugs database for "array" or "index" is a lot time consuming. Ooh. Is there a bug for this somewhere? Searching the PHP bugs database for “array” or “index” is a lot time consuming.

]]> By: Ian P. Christian http://finite.grimoire.ca/2010/01/indexing-expressions/comment-page-1/#comment-3 Ian P. Christian Mon, 11 Jan 2010 21:13:06 +0000 http://finite.grimoire.ca/?p=26#comment-3 I think it's accidently by design ;) It's know, and apparently might be supported in PHP6. I think it’s accidently by design ;)

It’s know, and apparently might be supported in PHP6.

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