I would not consider this for arrays and objects, too. If we had real
arrays, this would make sense but they are HT's and therewith it can also be
explained that -1 is an element and not the end of the chained list behind
the HT.
2011/6/20 Johannes Schlüter <johan...@schlueters.de>
> On Mon, 2011-06-20 at 16:31 +0200, Etienne Kneuss wrote:
> > >> Negative string offsets is a wish and also an implementation of my
> running
> > >> PHP version for long. It operates in the same fashion like substr()
> with
> > >> negative offsets, but avoids the function call and is much smarter if
> one
> > >> single character has to be extracted:
>
> > Do you mean ArrayObject? ArrayAccess is the interface.
> > Regardless, I don't believe it makes sense to change the semantics of
> > those indexes for arrays, since arrays can define negative indexes.
> > i.e. $a = array(-1 => "foo", 2 => "bar"); $a[-1] should really be
> > "foo", and not "bar".
>
> This clearly shows the inconsistency this brings. Maybe $var{$offset}
> should be clearly deprecated for arrays and $var[$offset] for strings as
> in PHP they work differently.
>
> johannes
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