If everything is chained, it's a pain to figure out such basic workings.
Hi,
I still find it hard to understand why some should artificially claim basic
constructs supported by other languages for years are somehow more complex
than PHP's existing semantics.
Supporting dereferencing in all situations where it produces unambigous
results is necessary to improve consistency of the language, so we stop
seeing people surprised why something works in one context, but not another.
Working around PHP's limitation with redundant factory methods and temp vars
do not help code readability.
They are just arbitrarily imposed because of an irrational fear that
suddenly everyone will be jumping on the new feature for his entire
codebase. Even most poor coders are smarter than this.
Regards,
Stan Vassilev
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