Right, I was about to say that too. If we only did it for the {} operator
it would encourage people to use that little-used operator thereby
removing a source of confusion and at the same time the BC issues are
minimal.
-Rasmus
On Fri, 29 Oct 2004, Sterling Hughes wrote:
> why not add it with the {} operators then?
>
> -sterling
>
>
> On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 15:07:05 -0400, Ilia Alshanetsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > 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.
> >
> > Ilia
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