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Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2011 18:21:28 +0000
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Subject: [PHP-DEV] Support negative indexes for arrays and strings
From: marc@easen.co.uk (Marc Easen)

Hello everyone,

I would like to open the discussion around the support of negative =
indexes, as I feel a lot of developers will benefit from this =
syntactical sugar.

Example:
$foo =3D array(1,2,3);
echo $foo[2]; // 3
echo $foo[-1]; // 3

$bar =3D 'baz';
echo $foo[2]; // 'z'
echo $foo[-1]; // 'z'

The change to PHP is quite trivial, but as it's a change to language it =
needs to be discussed.=20

I'm happy to open a RFC, I have got a wiki account but I haven't got =
permission to add a wiki page. Whom do I need to contact regarding =
getting correct permissions to add/edit wiki pages?

Kind Regards
Marc