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Posted by Shelly on 04/10/07 10:52
<rick@fourfront.ltd.uk> wrote in message
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>> What led you to believe that? Where in the documentation does it say
>> you can do it that way?
>
> If only I could remember where ...
> As far as I can remember it was a write up about the functionality
> that was going to be available in php5 prior to the actual release.
>
> IMHO it should be valid - it would save a lot of time coding
> especially in the following instance ;-
>
> if ( setArr()[ 3 ] === 2 )
> {
> ...
> }
>
> instead of
>
> $X = setArr() ;
> if ( $X[ 3 ] === 2 )
> {
> ...
> }
>
Surely you are joking -- "it would save a lot of time coding"??? It is ONE
line and it makes the code clearer!
What you are saying here reminds me of (way back when) when I first learned
C coding. I found that some smart aleck programmers suffered from what I
called the "Name that Tune Syndrome". They played the game like
-- "I can write that code in 5 lines".
-- "I can write that code in 3 lines".
-- "I can write that code in one line".
-- "Write that code".
All it did was make debugging and maintenance a nightmare. Adding one extra
line for increased clarity? B.F.D.!
Shelly
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