Is there anything wrong with having a convention for character access of
strings? Most PHP programmers see {} as string access and [] as array access -
sure, they might be functionally identical, but its the convention which is
important.
Jevon
> -------Original Message-------
> From: Rasmus Lerdorf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] dropping curly braces
> Sent: 17 Nov '05 12:11
>
> Andreas Korthaus wrote:
> >> As far a code readability and obviousness goes, I doubt anybody would
> >> guess their way to the $str{5} syntax.
> >
> > But you know without understanding of any context, that it's the 6th
> > character of the string "$str". When you see $var[5], it could be the
> > 6th character of a string, or an element of an array... and what about
> > the value? You can't be sure that it's a string with length 1, it also
> > could be another array, an object, a string with length 4711...
> >
> > That increases complexity and decreases readability.
>
> Your argument falls apart there. Try it:
>
> $a = array("ab","cd","ef");
> echo $a{2};
>
> Guess what that prints? {} has nothing to do with strings. They are
> 100% equivalent to [] and as such add nothing to clarity.
>
> -Rasmus
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