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Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2015 16:24:24 +0000
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To: Leigh <leight@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] RFC - Array slice syntactic sugar
From: bowersbros@gmail.com (Alex Bowers)

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On 20 March 2015 at 16:17, Leigh <leight@gmail.com> wrote:

> $thing[-1:] is in scope for arrays though


How would this work for slicing?

Since doing [@-1:] would mean get the last element to the end.

And doing [@1:-1] is the exact same as doing [@1:] since -1 and blank both
mean the end.

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