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There Will Be Penalty: May 18, 2002; Makes a great pet!

duz posted:

Naw, can't do that in PHP. Javascript can do what you want, don't know off hand what else could.

Perl does this.

code:

sub foo {
        return ("zero", "one", "two", "three", "four");
}
print((foo())[2]);
print("\n");

If your function returns a list reference:

code:

sub bar {
        return ["cero", "uno", "dos", "tres", "cuatro"];
}
print(bar()->[2]);
print("\n");

I can't speak for Python or Ruby.

# ¿ Mar 20, 2008 00:18

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# ¿ Apr 29, 2024 15:21

There Will Be Penalty: May 18, 2002; Makes a great pet!

Heskie posted:

My CTO has this exact opinion, and while I don't disagree, Twig/Blade at least make things like escaping sensible. Built in support for things like partials/extending layouts is also nice. I'm also a fan of syntax like foreachelse and unless.

As with anything, you can do it yourself but why bother? PHP League's Plates is a good middle ground I guess.

I've used this 40-line template engine for a few things. It's *bare* minimalism but gets some jobs done. Plates adds some functionality but works pretty much the exact same way.

Did I mention it's only 40 lines of code?

# ¿ Feb 6, 2016 12:31

There Will Be Penalty: May 18, 2002; Makes a great pet!

The thing about prepared statements is you can do this:

PHP code:

$sql = "INSERT INTO Owners(Names) VALUES(:item);";
$query = $odb->prepare($sql);
foreach ($items as $item) {
    $results = $query->execute([":item" => $item]);
    /* ... */
}

It's kind of one of the purposes of prepared statements, really.

# ¿ Feb 14, 2016 03:53

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