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Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2011 10:32:54 -0800
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Support negative indexes for arrays and strings
From: matthewfonda@gmail.com (Matthew Fonda)

On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 10:21 AM, Marc Easen <marc@easen.co.uk> wrote:
> 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.

It would be convenient, but PHP already allows arrays to have negative
indices. Changing their behavior would be a major BC break.

Best Regards,
--Matthew