Re: Support negative indexes for arrays and strings
| From: | Ferenc Kovacs | Date: | Fri, 31 Aug 2012 13:24:37 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Support negative indexes for arrays and strings | ||
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On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 3:14 PM, Rasmus Schultz <rasmus@mindplay.dk> wrote:
> Having thought about this for a while, I think this is a bad idea - here's
> why:
>
> $array = array(1001, 1002, 1003, 1004);
>
> $number = $array[-1]; // => 1004
>
> $number[-1] = 1005;
>
> $number = $array[-1]; // => ????
>
> Obviously, the last statement must return 1005, since otherwise that
> value would be inaccessible.
>
>
maybe you wanted to write
$array[-1] = 1005;
instead of
$number[-1] = 1005;
?
otherwise I can't see the problem that you are mentioning.
could you clarify?
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Ferenc Kovács
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