On 28/02/15 08:24, François Laupretre wrote: > Sorry, not a bug. Documentation is clear. You get 'string|false' from > substr() and send it to a function expecting 'string'. Most languages will > fail on this. It worked in PHP because of implicit casting from bool to > string. We just decided to deprecate this implicit cast. > > Now, we can discuss about substr(), whether it should always return string or > not. But that's another subject.
Isn't this the whole crux of the problem? The strict/coercive world fix for 'is there a string left' is to create an error which has to be handled, when workflow wise simply branching on the empty string is the correct action. I can see that some people need the empty string rather than the 'false' but THAT is the sort of thing that 'Coercive' should be handling rather than dictating that it is now an error. This is fundamental to the nature of PHP and dismissing a basic premiss 'another subject' is exactly what both 'camps' are currently doing. *I* want to maintain the ability to write code that runs in sequence, that is what a script language should do. It is NOT designed to be compiled, but processed and having to compile sections to create new functions such as exception returns which may never be used is wrong, just as trying to optimise something that may need the now optimized out element next time a bit of code is used is equally wrong. If you want the ultimate fastest performance just use C or one of the other fully compiled languages an live with the 'delay when you first run it'. Ultimately PHP works because it returns the type of object you need at the time ... fixed single types are not what PHP is ... and that is the type of PHP *I* want but I seem to be in an obsolete minority? I only need the current build of PHP7 because it puts back speed lost due to other changes but it is most definitely heading somewhere I don't want to be. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL ----------------------------- Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media - http://rainbowdigitalmedia.co.uk -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
