Re: Negative string offset support

We haven't yet separated the semantics of {} and []. It was always planned but never done. I'll put it on my TODO and hopefully will find some time to look into it. Andi At 04:13 PM 10/29/2004 -0400, Paul G wrote:

----- Original Message ----- From: "Ilia Alshanetsky" <ilia@prohost.org> To: <internals@lists.php.net> Sent: Friday, October 29, 2004 3:07 PM Subject: [PHP-DEV] Negative string offset support I am wondering what are people's opinions on adding support for negative string offsets that could be used to access data from the end of a string. Ex. $a = "123"; echo $a[-1]; // would print 3 I don't think we should do this for arrays, since -1 and similar are valid array keys, which means adding this support for arrays would break BC. this, coupled with splicing, is very useful in python. i believe it would be very useful in php as well. agree with sterling's suggestion - it would enable all of the functionality, rather than some. paul -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php