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Subject: Re: Negative string offset support
From: cellog@php.net (Greg Beaver)

Ilia Alshanetsky wrote:
> 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.

I need this, +1

Greg