Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:13604 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 59391 invoked by uid 1010); 29 Oct 2004 20:07:14 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 59303 invoked from network); 29 Oct 2004 20:07:13 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO prohost.org) (216.126.86.27) by pb1.pair.com with SMTP; 29 Oct 2004 20:07:13 -0000 Received: (qmail 15696 invoked from network); 29 Oct 2004 19:37:19 -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 19:37:19 -0000 Message-ID: <41829BEC.2080507@prohost.org> Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 15:37:16 -0400 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 (Windows/20040913) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: sterling@apache.org, internals@lists.php.net References: <418294D9.4070700@prohost.org> <24e5f3b7041029123455d9b570@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <24e5f3b7041029123455d9b570@mail.gmail.com> 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: Re: [PHP-DEV] Negative string offset support From: ilia@prohost.org (Ilia Alshanetsky) Sure, I have no operator preference. Ilia Sterling Hughes wrote: > why not add it with the {} operators then? > > -sterling > > > On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 15:07:05 -0400, 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. >> >>Ilia >> >>-- >>PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List >>To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >> >> > > >