How access a key of a array which is returned by a function

Question

I want to be able to access the array directly from the return value of the function.

e.g. 
$arr = find_student();
echo $arr['name'];

// I want to be able to do
echo find_student()['name']

How can I accomplish the same ? Without another line of code ?

Answer 1

You can't. The PHP syntax parser is limited and does not allow it in current versions.

The PHP devs extended the parser for upcoming releases of PHP. Here's a link to a blog talking about it