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> I am curious what the internal hang up is which prevents: PHP's parser is... not exactly a great work of software engineering.
> PHP is... not exactly a great work of software engineering. FTFY. :)
Big hitters: array dereferencing - $object->method()[$index] is now valid syntax built-in webserver via CLI - php -s - http://php.net/manual/en/features.commandline.webserver.php traits and the insteadof operator - http://php.net/language.oop5.traits.php shortened array syntax - $array = [1, 2, [1, 2, 3], 4]; Finally removed register_globals ;) Default charset of UTF-8! Read all about it! http://www.php.net/manual/en…
I am curious what the internal hang up is which prevents: funcReturnsFunc(1)(2)
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Well, it wasn't a bug. That was more of a feature request which is now implemented.
It’s been a feature request for at least eight years, it should never have arisen in the first place, and it should have been a one-line fix even if it had arisen. I don’t mean to knock PHP too badly; it’s quite useful, even if it is rather quirky. I just find it so unfortunate that this silly thing got so out of hand.
It did not "get out of hand" by any measure. Once there was a consensus that this feature is needed by the significant part of PHP community, it was implemented. Could it be done earlier? Maybe, so could a lot of other nice things.