Hi all,
On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 12:49 PM, Stanislav Malyshev
<smalys...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Another issue mentioned in this thread is the spurious array conversion
>> that happens for empty strings. We have an existing bug report for this:
>> https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=53432 I've created a PR to fix this
>> issue: https://github.com/php/php-src/pull/1764 If there are no
>> objections, I'll merge this for 7.1 as well.
>
> This one looks like a bug, converting string to array is really weird.
> And one more reason to never use [] for string offsets - clearly, the
> bug stems out of confusion between arrays operation (which expects
> conversion to array) and string operation (which expects string).
> In any case, this needs a note in UPGRADING as behavior change.
I fully agree {} and [] usage.
- {} only for string
- [] only for array
Simple is better if it satisfies all of our needs.
Since PHP allowed [] for strings, how about allow it, but deprecate it
by doc in 7.1, deprecate(Raise error) it in 7.2, then remove it by
7.3?
Regards,
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Yasuo Ohgaki
yohg...@ohgaki.net
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