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Subject: Re: [RFC] [VOTE] Arrays starting with a negative index
From: cmbecker69@gmx.de ("Christoph M. Becker")

On 06.06.2017 at 19:55, Pedro Magalhães wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I have just opened the vote on this RFC.
> 
> The main goal of the RFC is to eliminate the inconsistency in arrays when
> negative numeric keys are used explicitly and the following implicit keys
> will start from zero.
> 
> You can find the RFC here: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/negative_array_index
> The previous discussion: https://externals.io/thread/712
> And the PR (also some discussion): https://github.com/php/php-src/pull/2383
> 
> Voting is open from now until 20/6/2017 18:00 UTC.

I don't think that the current behavior makes much sense, but since it
is well documented and it isn't a bug, changing it in a minor version
wouldn't comply to our release process[1].  Therefore, I've voted
against, but I'd be happy to see this improvement in PHP 8.

[1] <https://wiki.php.net/rfc/releaseprocess#releases_cycle>

-- 
Christoph M. Becker