Nathan Nobbe wrote:
> On Jan 10, 2008 11:00 PM, Arlen Christian Mart Cuss <celtic@sairyx.org>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi there,
>>
>> Why is it that if I try to evaluate an index of an array returned by a
>> function immediately, a syntax error is produced? (unexpected '[',
>> expecting ',' or ';')
>
>
> thats hillarious, i literally brought this up at the office like 2 days ago.
> ill tell you why its really lame (imho), because php5 supports syntax
> like this:
> function someFunc() {
> return date_create();
> }
> echo someFunc()->format('Y-m-d');
>
> that is, it allows you to chain a method invocation to the invocation of a
> function
> if the function returns an object.
>
> -nathan
>

So, make all your functions return objects, and have the object have a
method called get or index or something like that that returns the index
requested. :)

Better yet, make everything an object: String, Numeric, Array, etc