Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:13656 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 69829 invoked by uid 1010); 1 Nov 2004 07:30:04 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 69795 invoked from network); 1 Nov 2004 07:30:04 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO jdi.jdimedia.nl) (212.204.192.51) by pb1.pair.com with SMTP; 1 Nov 2004 07:30:04 -0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by jdi.jdimedia.nl (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id iA17U3vF017893 for ; Mon, 1 Nov 2004 08:30:04 +0100 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by jdi.jdimedia.nl (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id iA17TlNK017868; Mon, 1 Nov 2004 08:29:48 +0100 Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2004 08:29:47 +0100 (CET) X-X-Sender: derick@localhost To: sterling@apache.org cc: Marcus Boerger , Wez Furlong , internals@lists.php.net In-Reply-To: <24e5f3b7041031220372d44413@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: References: <418294D9.4070700@prohost.org> <20041029193421.9557.qmail@pb1.pair.com> <5.1.0.14.2.20041029162045.0439b9c0@localhost> <20041031093753.74166.qmail@pb1.pair.com> <42285846.20041031233522@marcus-boerger.de> <41856AEF.4060501@php.net> <4e89b426041031172932ada70f@mail.gmail.com> <1152524831.20041101030445@marcus-boerger.de> <24e5f3b7041031220372d44413@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at jdimedia.nl Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Negative string offset support From: derick@php.net (Derick Rethans) On Sun, 31 Oct 2004, Sterling Hughes wrote: > i hope not. this should be about what's cool for developers, the > speed increase is not a compelling reason.. the debate is "does this > make code easier to read/write/maintain?" I think it doesn't, and > therefore am against it. And I agree with this, speed should not be the reason to add this as Zeev correctly interpolated from my earlier mails. Derick -- Derick Rethans http://derickrethans.nl | http://ez.no | http://xdebug.org