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To: Rasmus Schultz <rasmus@mindplay.dk>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Support negative indexes for arrays and strings
From: tyra3l@gmail.com (Ferenc Kovacs)

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On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 3:14 PM, Rasmus Schultz <rasmus@mindplay.dk> wrote:

> Having thought about this for a while, I think this is a bad idea - here'=
s
> why:
>
>     $array =3D array(1001, 1002, 1003, 1004);
>
>     $number =3D $array[-1]; // =3D> 1004
>
>     $number[-1] =3D 1005;
>
>     $number =3D $array[-1]; // =3D> ????
>
> Obviously, the last statement must return 1005, since otherwise that
> value would be inaccessible.
>
>
maybe you wanted to write
$array[-1] =3D 1005;
instead of
$number[-1] =3D 1005;
?

otherwise I can't see the problem that you are mentioning.
could you clarify?

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