Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:32564 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 13298 invoked by uid 1010); 2 Oct 2007 17:48:15 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 13283 invoked from network); 2 Oct 2007 17:48:15 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 2 Oct 2007 17:48:15 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=jeffg@activestate.com; spf=pass; sender-id=pass Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=jeffg@activestate.com; sender-id=pass Received-SPF: pass (pb1.pair.com: domain activestate.com designates 209.17.146.130 as permitted sender) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: jeffg@activestate.com X-Host-Fingerprint: 209.17.146.130 unknown Linux 2.6 Received: from [209.17.146.130] ([209.17.146.130:34011] helo=mx.activestate.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 63/00-12743-95482074 for ; Tue, 02 Oct 2007 13:48:10 -0400 Received: from box5.activestate.com (box5.activestate.com [192.168.69.5]) by mx.activestate.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C2A592193E2; Tue, 2 Oct 2007 10:48:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from opus.activestate.com (opus.activestate.com [192.168.69.200]) by box5.activestate.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B52C1152C1; Tue, 2 Oct 2007 10:48:06 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <47028454.2080705@activestate.com> Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2007 10:48:04 -0700 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (Macintosh/20070728) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Antony Dovgal CC: Ilia Alshanetsky , Alexey Zakhlestin , PHP Developers Mailing List References: <4700EC25.1050800@daylessday.org> In-Reply-To: <4700EC25.1050800@daylessday.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] substr/array_slice in [] From: jeffg@activestate.com (Jeff Griffiths) Antony Dovgal wrote: > On 01.10.2007 16:32, Ilia Alshanetsky wrote: >> This was not on the table and the time of the 5.3 discussion, I for >> one think its a bit too much magic. > > Yeah, too Perl-ish for me. Actually, it's a lot like Python list slicing, which is a great feature and a clear enough syntax. cheers, Jeff