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Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2015 10:43:21 +0000
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] RFC - Array slice syntactic sugar
From: leight@gmail.com (Leigh)

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On 20 March 2015 at 10:38, Leigh <leight@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I've tried implementing python style slice on both strings and arrays in
> the past (I don't seem to have an existing branch with it in any more
> though it seems). The biggest problems I hit were regarding the syntax, the
> functionality itself worked.
>
> Colons caused problems with ternary operators in the lexer, and I had an
> issue with commas too, but I forget what it was. Of course these might have
> been resolvable, but I didn't put too much effort into it.
>

 That said, I'm a little older and wiser than I was then, I'd still be
interested in looking at this. I'll try and come up with _something_ that
works over the weekend.

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