Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:13599 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 37419 invoked by uid 1010); 29 Oct 2004 19:18:40 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 37389 invoked from network); 29 Oct 2004 19:18:40 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO prohost.org) (216.126.86.27) by pb1.pair.com with SMTP; 29 Oct 2004 19:18:40 -0000 Received: (qmail 13979 invoked from network); 29 Oct 2004 19:07:07 -0000 Received: from cpe0050bad46dce-cm000f9f7d6664.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com (HELO ?192.168.1.101?) (@69.196.31.138) by prohost.org with SMTP; 29 Oct 2004 19:07:07 -0000 Message-ID: <418294D9.4070700@prohost.org> Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 15:07:05 -0400 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 (Windows/20040913) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: internals@lists.php.net X-Enigmail-Version: 0.86.1.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Negative string offset support From: ilia@prohost.org (Ilia Alshanetsky) I am wondering what are people's opinions on adding support for negative string offsets that could be used to access data from the end of a string. Ex. $a = "123"; echo $a[-1]; // would print 3 I don't think we should do this for arrays, since -1 and similar are valid array keys, which means adding this support for arrays would break BC. Ilia