I'd like to use list() for other things that assigning to, ie. this works:
list($a,$b)=$c;

But the following example doesn't work (among others):

$str="I think this is a stupid example, but it should show what I want to know";
preg_match( "/(this) is a (stupid) example/", $str, list($whole,$first,$second) );

Somebody generalized this feature request as 'more effective parser'.

Otherwise, thanks a lot for a good job!