Bogdan Ribic wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Try this:
> 
> $a = '';
> echo "\{$a}";
> 
> from php 4, it outputs "{}", from php 5.2 (one that comes with Zend 5.5)

no-one here supports Zend.

> it outputs "\{}", thus breaking existing scripts.

AFAICT the escaping in that string is wrong - the fact that it did work
the way you want it to is probably sheer luck.

lastly I ran your tests and determined at the least that the 'break'
occur *prior* to 5.2. at a guess it probably changed in 5.0, here are my 
results:

# php -r 'echo "php",phpversion(),":\n"; $a = ""; var_dump("\{$s}");'  ;
  php5 -r 'echo "php",phpversion(),":\n"; $a = ""; var_dump("\{$s}");'

OUTPUT:

php4.3.10-18:
string(2) "{}"
php5.1.2:
string(3) "\{}"

> 

be pragmatic - fix your script :-)

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