Re: Re: Negative string offset support: and arrays?

Ilia Alshanetsky wrote:

I am well aware that at this point PHP has no separation between [] and {} as far as string offsets go. My initial suggestion was to add the support for negative offsets and not to limit it to a particular construct. Given that this is intended for strings only, I readily agreed with people who suggested that it should be available only for {}, assuming there was a separation.

What happens to arrays when there's no difference between [] and {} ? $array[-1] $string[-1] This will confused people because $array[-1] actually wouldn't return the last element (it could, if we know the indices are only positive integers, but we can't assume when that when using arrays with arbitrary keys -> hashes). That seems problematic to me. - Markus