On Feb 15, 2016 1:15 PM, "Yasuo Ohgaki" <yohg...@ohgaki.net> wrote: > > 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?
If anything then it can be removed by 8.
