On 27.07.2016 at 13:53, Michał Brzuchalski: > 2016-07-27 12:24 GMT+02:00 Christoph Becker <cmbecke...@gmx.de>: > >> However, that still would require something like >> >> $str[0..mb_strlen($needle)-1] == $needle > > I've been working on range operator some time ago and had problem with > double-dot ".." as an operator because of conflict with concat operator. > 0..5 could be 0. . 5, or 0 . .5 white spaces are problem here, > unfortunately dot is concat operator and decimal separator.
Well, there's a similar issue with `- -$n` vs. `--$n` anyway, but of course we could use something else than `..` (`:` comes to mind; not sure if that would work). -- Christoph M. Becker -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
