For the record, Rasmus Lerdorf is on the core team for PHP. When I said "some_integer_array.at(i)" I certainly didn't mean "rename both things". Alternatively

For the record, Rasmus Lerdorf is on the core team for PHP. When I said "some_integer_array.at(i)" I certainly didn't mean "rename both things". Alternatively, having one additional magic kind/trait/... to denote "addressable" would be more manageable than shoe-horning things into the language's syntax which can – at this change – not be fixed anymore.