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Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2015 12:26:06 +0000
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To: Alex Bowers <bowersbros@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] RFC - Array slice syntactic sugar
From: leight@gmail.com (Leigh)

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On Mar 20, 2015 11:40 AM, "Alex Bowers" <bowersbros@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.
>
>
> If you've got a link to your messaging thread, I'd love to read it. Thanks
>
>> 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.
>
>
> Could this not be mitigated by adding a new token like T_COLON to be used
to match this use case?

The only thing I could find is:
http://chat.stackoverflow.com/transcript/11?m=15926856#15926856

If your branch is available on github let me know, more than happy work on
it with you.

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