Hi all internalers:
Since there comes some new objections, I think I should open the
RFC voteing again.
to Derick, if I extended voting phase for two weeks , can we
consider this voteing valid?
I think this proposal is not explained clearly before, so I am
going to explain it agian,
and I am not good at english, so if I make you confused, sorry in advance.
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this RFC comes from a Featurn request: https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=36944
when I saw the request, I totally agree with the reporter, and I
think this feature can make sense for simplify following situation:
<?php
if (strncmp(substr("num_suffix", 0, -5), "suffix", 5) == 0) {
echo "they have the same suffix";
}
and you may wondering does negative length make sense?
yes, because substr supports it already:
<?php
echo substr("test", 0, -1);
Now this RFC is calling for vote again, plz read the RFC, and
vote for it: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/strncmpnegativelen
if you have any question about this, plz write back.
thanks.
2011/8/14 Laruence <larue...@php.net>:
> Hi:
> I think what I was done is try to describe a image, that we can make
> follow codes more simple:
>
> if (strncmp(substr("num_suffix", 0, -5), "suffix", 5) == 0) {
> echo "they have the same suffix";
> }
>
> yes, there is must something not good in my patch, but I think I
> can tweak it as you wish.
>
> the only thing I want you to accept is : " should this behavior is
> more make sense for some occassion?"
>
> thanks
>
> 2011/8/14 Laruence <larue...@php.net>:
>> Hi:
>> this just to say that stncasecmp has the same behavior of either
>> negative or postive length argument.
>>
>> why you insist to this point? as strncmp("aaaa", "bbb", 1000000)
>> works with no warning, why negative length need trigger warnings?
>>
>> thanks
>>
>> 2011/8/14 Derick Rethans <der...@php.net>:
>>> On Sun, 14 Aug 2011, Ferenc Kovacs wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 1:24 PM, Derick Rethans <der...@php.net> wrote:
>>>> > On Sat, 13 Aug 2011, Laruence wrote:
>>>> >
>>>> >> Dear all:
>>>> >> I am going to close strn(case)cmp supporting negative length vote,
>>>> >> since it has been calling for vote near two weeks, and no new feedback
>>>> >> .
>>>> >>
>>>> >> the Voting result is:
>>>> >> Support : 6 felipe pajoye pierrick gwynne tyrael laruence
>>>> >> Decline : 3 iliaa rasmus salathe
>>>> >>
>>>> >> it wins 2/3 vote, so I think this supposed to mean that accept,
>>>> >> right?
>>>> >
>>>> > I voted against too. Also, you started the vote with not even a week
>>>> > between RFC announcement and call for voting, so I guess that makes this
>>>> > invalid?
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> > Just looked over the RFC, and this whole example is weird:
>>>> >
>>>> > <?php
>>>> > var_dump(strncmp("prefix_num", "num", -10));
>>>> > ?>
>>>> >
>>>> > Why does it even find the substring as you can't do "-10" from the end?
>>>> > If the number is too high, it should give you a warning.
>>>>
>>>> imo the patch is consistent with how substr works:
>>>> tyrael@thor:~$ php -d display_errors=1 -d error_reporting=-1 -r 'echo
>>>> substr("prefix_num", -100);'
>>>> prefix_num
>>>
>>> Maybe, but I would classify *that* as a bug as it makes no sense at all.
>>>
>>> Derick
>>>
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>>
>>
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>> http://www.laruence.com/
>>
>
>
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