Nikita Popov wrote on 06/02/2016 15:16:
In any case, while this is no doubt an interesting question, and one we should resolve, it is tangential to this RFC and this RFC should make no recommendations either way. I would prefer not to be forced to vote against this RFC due to the inclusion of the unnecessary and unrelated "In the documentation" section. A different proposal should concern itself with this matter.
There is one case where it is highly relevant - if the aim in the future is to make string offsets behave more like array offsets, then this RFC should be rejected. My reasoning being that negative offsets are legal in array access, with a different meaning, so adding this feature increases the difference between string and array indexing.
Many of the other differences are - in theory at least - resolvable. e.g. $string[1]++ could be equivalent to $temp = $string[1]; $temp++; $string[1] = $temp;
If making string access similar to array access is a lower priority than adding features such as the one in this RFC, then the case for switching to {} is strengthened, but not conclusive.
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