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Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2012 21:43:24 +0800
To: Stas Malyshev <smalyshev@sugarcrm.com>
Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Support negative indexes for arrays and strings
From: tjerk.meesters@gmail.com (Tjerk Meesters)


On 4 Sep, 2012, at 3:59 AM, Stas Malyshev <smalyshev@sugarcrm.com> wrote:

> Hi!
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>> The terminology "negative indexing" seems to imply that the feature
>> should work with arrays. To restrict it to just strings might involve
>> creating a term one would only associate with strings.
>=20
> I do not see any way to change behavior of $array[-1] that would make
> sense. So either only strings get it or nobody gets it.

I suppose one could still extend ArrayAccess and have their own negative ind=
ices support for arrays :)

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