----- Original Message ----- From: "Ilia Alshanetsky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, October 29, 2004 3:07 PM Subject: [PHP-DEV] Negative string offset support
> I am wondering what are people's opinions on adding support for negative > string offsets that could be used to access data from the end of a string. > > Ex. $a = "123"; echo $a[-1]; // would print 3 > > I don't think we should do this for arrays, since -1 and similar are > valid array keys, which means adding this support for arrays would break BC. this, coupled with splicing, is very useful in python. i believe it would be very useful in php as well. agree with sterling's suggestion - it would enable all of the functionality, rather than some. paul -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
