Posted by "leaf" on 09/17/05 07:02

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From: "Jasper Bryant-Greene" <jasper@bryant-greene.name>
To: <php-general@lists.php.net>
Sent: Friday, September 16, 2005 4:45 PM
Subject: Re: [PHP] Quick Poll: PHP 4 / 5


> Stephen Leaf wrote:
>> So yes a bug. But for those that want to be able to grab only what we
>> need. in my case array_pop's returned element. I don't wanna be hassled
>> with the "are you sure you wanted to ignore part of what we did?"
>> It's almost like every program asking "are you sure you wanted to close
>> me?" everytime I get asked that I always think... "I did just click the
>> X.. so.... Yah......."
>
> But why use array_pop() to get the last element, when you know it's
> intended to shorten its passed array as well?
>
> I mean, sure, it might take a few more lines of code to do it properly,
> but it has the advantage that whoever has to look at the code next might
> actually understand what's going on in your head.
>
> $array = explode( ',', $some_string );
> $last_element_pos = count( $array ) - 1;
> $last_element = $array[$last_element_pos];
>
> [ sure, you could put the count( $array ) - 1 as the array subscript but I
> was just extending it out for illustration... it's probably easier to
> understand later on anyway. ]

Actually I choose array_pop for 2 reasons.
I like short code. I don't want to read thousands of lines just to get an
idea. I tend to think in very compact code. if you find that ugly and
unreadable. that's your preference. I find extended coding very ugly, mostly
because I'm a slow reader, and that is my preference
I got use to working with pop and shift while I was doing perl work. so to
me pop'ing an array makes perfect sense.

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