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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: [RFC] Generalize support of negative string offsets
From: jpauli@php.net (Julien Pauli)

On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 3:45 PM, Fran=C3=A7ois Laupretre <francois@php.net>=
 wrote:
> Hi Andrea,
>
> Le 23/01/2016 22:10, Andrea Faulds a =C3=A9crit :
>>
>>
>> Er, ignore what I just said. Negative string offsets are actually
>> special-cased and always produce an "Unitialized string offset" or
>> "Invalid string offset" notice. So our current behaviour is in fact
>> completely useless, not just mostly. :)
>
>
> Thanks for your comments. Following your suggestion, I just added some
> examples of negative offset usage.
>
> About BC breaks, the RFC just adds support for currently-invalid values. =
In
> every cases, these values would have generated a notice or a warning, and
> the value would have been considered as zero. So, I consider these BC bre=
aks
> as minor because of error messages. But determining if such BC breaks are
> compatible with a minor release will be the main objective of the vote.
>
> Regards
>
> Fran=C3=A7ois
>
>
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Hi !

I like it very much.

It is not far from an idea I got in my head since a long time :
allowing string references and C-like character handling in PHP, but
this would require a deep engine patch I've not worked on it yet.

Anyway, happy consistency :-)


Julien.P