Re: RFC - Array slice syntactic sugar

Alex Bowers wrote on 20/03/2015 13:09:

On 20 March 2015 at 13:04, Rowan Collins <rowan.collins@gmail.com <mailto:rowan.collins@gmail.com>> wrote:

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I'm sure this is a slight oversight on your end, but just to check. The change of using {} instead of [] is not because its a string, and is just a typo / example correct?

It's an alternative syntax, which I thought was only usable for string indexing [1] but is apparently legal on arrays as well [2]. I personally like the idea of string offsets having similar but slightly different syntax from array offsets, to make clear which you're using. I use {} instead of [] for that reason, but at the moment the syntaxes are completely interchangeable as far as I can tell. [1] http://php.net/manual/en/language.types.string.php#language.types.string.substr [2] http://php.net/manual/en/language.types.array.php#language.types.array.syntax.accessing Regards, -- Rowan Collins [IMSoP]