Parser feature

Not sure if this is there already, but I was wondering if the parser could have a feature to display a finite number of array items, rather than implementing that logic from the controller, same with sorting and orderby, of course this assumes data is from a sql query.

For example

PHP Code:

{blogItems | orderby="date" sort="desc" limit="1" }

{/blogItems} 


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