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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [VOTE]strn(case)cmp supporting a negative length as its
 third paramter
From: tyra3l@gmail.com (Ferenc Kovacs)

>> imo the patch is consistent with how substr works:
>> tyrael@thor:~$ php -d display_errors=3D1 -d error_reporting=3D-1 -r 'ech=
o
>> substr("prefix_num", -100);'
>> prefix_num
>
> Maybe, but I would classify *that* as a bug as it makes no sense at all.
>

I don't mind that, and imho laruence would be happy to change the
patch, after we fix this "bug".
But thats a separate issue, and we should also keep in mind the BC
break for that.
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Ferenc Kov=C3=A1cs
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