Mark Nottingham <[email protected]> writes: >> Suggestion: allow negative numbers to indicate a position counted from the >> end of the array instead "array/-". >> [some measure of complexity omitted here...]
> David, > > This was discussed in the Working Group, but it wasn't felt that the added > complexity was worth it; there's a strong feeling that this spec should be as > simple as possible. > > Cheers, > -- > Mark Nottingham http://www.mnot.net/ Understood - simplicity is a great Guiding Principle. Might I suggest, however, using -1 instead of "-" to refer to the last item in an array, as this provides two benefits: 1) Allows for adding the complexity down the road in a compatible way, should there be need 2) Uniformity; i.e. always using integer values for referring to array elements. Thanks for the consideration, djb
