Re: [RFC] Generalize support of negative string offsets

On Sat, Jan 23, 2016 at 4:45 PM, François Laupretre <francois@php.net> wrote: > Hi, > > Starting discussion about > https://wiki.php.net/rfc/negative-string-offsets > > Please read and comment. > Just dropping by with a +1 on this proposal. Consistent support is always good. The only concern I have is that support of negative indexing will break symmetry with (proper) arrays, where we cannot support negative indexing. I.e. this may lead to "Why can I write $str[-1] to get the last character in a string, but not $array[-1] to get the last element in an array?" However this is unlikely to be a significant issue. (I do however play with the thought of reutilizing the obsolete {} indexing syntax to act as offset indexing instead.) Nikita