Re: Support negative indexes for arrays and strings
| From: | Marcin Babij | Date: | Fri, 14 Jan 2011 18:34:43 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Support negative indexes for arrays and strings | ||
| References: | 1 | Groups: | php.internals |
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> Hello everyone,
>
> I would like to open the discussion around the support of negative indexes, as I feel a lot of
> developers will benefit from this syntactical sugar.
>
> Example:
>
> echo $foo[2]; // 3
> echo $foo[-1]; // 3
Negative indexes are used already - for negative indexes.
What should:
$foo = array(1,2,3, -1 => 4, 5, 6);
echo $foo[-1];
return? Now it returns 4.
>
> $bar = 'baz';
> echo $foo[2]; // 'z'
> echo $foo[-1]; // 'z'
>
> The change to PHP is quite trivial, but as it's a change to language it needs to be
> discussed.
>
> I'm happy to open a RFC, I have got a wiki account but I haven't got permission to
> add a wiki page. Whom do I need to contact regarding getting correct permissions to add/edit wiki
> pages?