I don't think we should support bitwise ops on Unicode strings. I am
not even sure why we support them for normal strings.
-Andrei
On May 29, 2007, at 2:25 AM, Antony Dovgal wrote:
Hello.
Do you think the engine should support bitwise operators and
Unicode strings?
If yes, how do you think it should work?
Example:
<?php
$a = "1"; $a|="2"; var_dump($a);
?>
This code outputs "3" in native mode and "Fatal error: Unsupported
operand types" in Unicode mode.
I believe this is an inconsistency and it should be possible to use
Unicode strings there.
There are several possible ways to implement it:
1) the same as with native strings - apply the operator to each
element of the string separately;
2) convert the string to binary (using say iso-8859-1) and then see
1);
We can also leave it as is (since it doesn't seem very useful) or
even drop the native strings support (it doesn't seem very useful
to me either).
Opinions?
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Wbr, Antony Dovgal
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