Re: Support negative indexes for arrays and strings
| From: | Stas Malyshev | Date: | Fri, 14 Jan 2011 18:47:41 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Support negative indexes for arrays and strings | ||
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Hi!
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.What you are looking for is implemented in array_slice(). Python has shortcuts for this thing, like a[1:-1], but PHP doesn't. If you wanted to RFC something here, I think the idea of $a[X:Y] with array_slice semantics could be doable. $a[-1:1] would be your case then. -- Stanislav Malyshev, Software Architect SugarCRM: http://www.sugarcrm.com/ (408)454-6900 ext. 227