On 12 September 2025 20:02:04 BST, "Dušan Kreheľ" <dusankre...@gmail.com> wrote: >[+] array_push >[-] array_pop >[-<] array_shift > >array_unshift() is a special case of array_merge(), so it would then need >syntactic sugar for merging arrays, or rather a reserved merge.
array_unshift is no more a special case of array_merge than array_push, particularly in the single-element case we're talking about here - it's really just the same operation at the other end of the array. Since we have an extremely well-established array_push shorthand, so don't need a new one, we could perhaps have "<" for "at start", and "-" for "pop": $foo[] = $toPush; $popped = $foo[-]; $foo[<] = $toUnshift; $shifted = $foo[-<]; I'm not totally convinced it's necessary, but I don't completely hate it. P.S. Quick reminder to all contributors on this thread that the policy here is to reply *below* the relevant quoted text, editing as necessary; do not reply *above* the entire quoted thread. Rowan Tommins [IMSoP]
