Hello Marco,
Actually, you are trying to access to something that does not exist, so
you get a null value. This part is logical. However, yes, a notice would
be welcomed except it may be skipped for historical reasons I reckon.
Probably to work well with `isset` or similar scenario.
Cheers.
On 12/04/16 14:59, Marco Pivetta wrote:
Hello,
I just stumbled upon behavior that seems to "fail silently" regardless of
its very questionable validity:
<?php
$a = 1;
var_dump($a[123]); // NULL, no notice
https://3v4l.org/b3rDr
Are there specific reasons why no notice is thrown? Is it by design? If so,
does anyone remember why?
I haven't checked if this affects other types too. I know that an
assignment to an array key of a non-array would cause a cast of the value
to `array`, but a mere read operation should surely cause a notice to be
raised in the above scenario.
Cheers,
Marco Pivetta
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