Re: RFC - Array slice syntactic sugar

Is everybody happy with the RFC being called 'Slice Operator', or is there a better name for it? On 20 March 2015 at 18:17, Rowan Collins <rowan.collins@gmail.com> wrote: > Leigh wrote on 20/03/2015 16:17: > >> >> For $thing[-1] I think this only works for strings (and I have this >> implemented, should probably RFC it) >> https://github.com/lt/php-src/ >> tree/string_negative_offset >> >> $thing[-1:] is in scope for arrays though >> >> > Why? Getting the last value of an array is just as useful as getting the > last character of a string. > > It doesn't work *with that syntax*, because -1 is a valid key, just as > $thing[0] can't mean "first value of array" because it already means "value > with key 0". That's why I propose a new syntax such as $thing[@0], > $thing[@-1], etc. > > Regards, > -- > Rowan Collins > [IMSoP] >