Ilia Alshanetsky wrote:
I am well aware that at this point PHP has no separation between [] and
{} as far as string offsets go. My initial suggestion was to add the
support for negative offsets and not to limit it to a particular
construct. Given that this is intended for strings only, I readily
agreed with people who suggested that it should be available only for
{}, assuming there was a separation.
What happens to arrays when there's no difference between [] and {} ?
$array[-1]
$string[-1]
This will confused people because $array[-1] actually wouldn't return the last element
(it could, if we know the indices are only positive integers, but we can't assume when
that when using arrays with arbitrary keys -> hashes).
That seems problematic to me.
- Markus
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