Hello Wez,

  well it would. However 5.1 aims to be a major speed improvement and that's
what the idea is about.

best regards
marcus

Monday, November 1, 2004, 2:29:46 AM, you wrote:

> Doesn't substr($a, -1) work ?

> --Wez.

> On Sun, 31 Oct 2004 17:45:03 -0500, Greg Beaver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> It would reduce the errors I inevitably get
>> whenever using a complex feature like substr().  The three choices:
>> 
>> 1) substr($a, strlen($a) - 1);
>> 2) $a{strlen($a) - 1}
>> 3) $a{-1}
>> 
>> It's pretty obvious that the 3rd choice lowers the potential for all
>> kinds of bugs (mistypign, wrong parameter name, incorrect parameter
>> placement), and is much more readable.  For those who already know how
>> {} works in PHP, it's also obvious what it does at the first look
>> without any speculation.




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