Re: Re: Negative string offset support

Hello Wez, well it would. However 5.1 aims to be a major speed improvement and that's what the idea is about. best regards marcus Monday, November 1, 2004, 2:29:46 AM, you wrote: > Doesn't substr($a, -1) work ? > --Wez. > On Sun, 31 Oct 2004 17:45:03 -0500, Greg Beaver <cellog@php.net> wrote: >> It would reduce the errors I inevitably get >> whenever using a complex feature like substr(). The three choices: >> >> 1) substr($a, strlen($a) - 1); >> 2) $a{strlen($a) - 1} >> 3) $a{-1} >> >> It's pretty obvious that the 3rd choice lowers the potential for all >> kinds of bugs (mistypign, wrong parameter name, incorrect parameter >> placement), and is much more readable. For those who already know how >> {} works in PHP, it's also obvious what it does at the first look >> without any speculation. -- Best regards, Marcus mailto:helly@php.net