Re: Re: Support negative indexes for arrays and strings

Hi! > The idea was originally proposed by Marc Easen who created a patch > and asked for help with putting together an RFC. I have yet to see a > formal proposal but on the list Easen modified his idea so that it > should apply to strings alone. With that in mind, would it really > cause problems to have code like this: > > $string = "Roses are red"; $string[-3] = "R"; // modifying > $string[10] echo $string; // Roses are Red I see how this may work for strings and simple vectors, but what about this: $a = array(-1 => "foo", -2 => "bar"); echo $a[-1]; It should keep returning "foo", right? So then the question is - what $array[-1] actually means? Right now I'm not sure I understand it. I guess if somebody wrote an RFC on that it'd make understanding it easier. I see that the patch seems to address just the string part - but the subject also mentions arrays. I think making it clear would be helpful. -- Stanislav Malyshev, Software Architect SugarCRM: http://www.sugarcrm.com/ (408)454-6900 ext. 227