On Sun, Jan 31, 2016 at 11:14 PM, Stanislav Malyshev
<smalys...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi!
>
>> The only concern I have is that support of negative indexing will break
>> symmetry with (proper) arrays, where we cannot support negative indexing.
>
> I think that was the main source of objections to this proposal in the
> past. However, as one might say, string offsets are already not
> symmetrical to array offsets - e.g. you can do $array["foo"] but not
> $string["foo"].
>
>> However this is unlikely to be a significant issue. (I do however play with
>> the thought of reutilizing the obsolete {} indexing syntax to act as offset
>> indexing instead.)
>
> I think it may be a good idea to start recommending using {} for string
> offsets and [] for arrays. While both syntaxes may work for strings, the
> intent (and expected handling of negatives, in this case) is much
> clearer when different syntax is used.I totally agree here, having 2 different syntaxes for 2 different ways of using the array for strings is pretty nice. Julien -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
