The idea was originally proposed by Marc Easen who created a patch and asked for help with putting together an RFC. I have yet to see a formal proposal but on the list Easen modified his idea so that it should apply to strings alone. With that in mind, would it really cause problems to have code like this:
$string = "Roses are red"; $string[-3] = "R"; // modifying $string[10] echo $string; // Roses are Red The negative indexing provides a pleasurable way to easily access part of a string; it's simple and should be fast, too. I think Easen's proposal is laudatory and I for one would like to see it happen for PHP and provide users with more ease and satisfaction in working with the language. SL -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
