From: tony at marston-home dot demon dot co dot uk Operating system: Windows XP PHP version: 5.1.2 PHP Bug Type: Arrays related Bug description: BC broken for no good reason
Description: ------------ I know that you're going to say that this is not a bug, as you have done with bug #25762, but I just want to make the point that, regardless of what it now says in the manual, as far as we in userland are concerned THIS IS A BUG! You have changed the way that it works when compared wih PHP 4, so you have broken backwards compatibility. And for what reason? To make the language more pure! This is not a good enough reason. It is no good saying that all array funcions MUST have arguments of the correct type, as this goes against the PHP tradition of being a very user-friendly and forgiving language that would accept arguments of any type and do any type casting itself. You are now saying that it is the programmer's responsibiliy to cast each variable to the correct type before calling an PHP function. Just suppose this argument was carried forward to every other function with PHP. How popular would you be then? This type of unnecessary BC breakage is conributing tothe slow take-up of PHP 5 because it breaks too many existing scripts FOR ABSOLUTELY NO GOOD REASON. I suggest you stop this "code purity" nonsense and make PHP work in the way that it has always worked - easy to use and forgiving. Expected result: ---------------- I expect the behaviour in PHP 4 to bethe same in PHP 5. -- Edit bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=36770&edit=1 -- Try a CVS snapshot (PHP 4.4): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=36770&r=trysnapshot44 Try a CVS snapshot (PHP 5.1): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=36770&r=trysnapshot51 Try a CVS snapshot (PHP 6.0): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=36770&r=trysnapshot60 Fixed in CVS: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=36770&r=fixedcvs Fixed in release: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=36770&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=36770&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=36770&r=needscript Try newer version: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=36770&r=oldversion Not developer issue: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=36770&r=support Expected behavior: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=36770&r=notwrong Not enough info: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=36770&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=36770&r=submittedtwice register_globals: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=36770&r=globals PHP 3 support discontinued: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=36770&r=php3 Daylight Savings: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=36770&r=dst IIS Stability: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=36770&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=36770&r=gnused Floating point limitations: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=36770&r=float No Zend Extensions: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=36770&r=nozend MySQL Configuration Error: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=36770&r=mysqlcfg
