Bug #62769 [Com]: Inconsistent notice reporting using []

Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=62769&edit=1 ID: 62769 Comment by: julien at palard dot fr Reported by: julien at palard dot fr Summary: Inconsistent notice reporting using [] Status: Open Type: Bug Package: *General Issues PHP Version: 5.4.5 Block user comment: N Private report: N New Comment: Also : $ php -r 'error_reporting(-1); $foo = 0; var_dump($foo["foo"]);' NULL Seems not right, I'd rather prefer to get, at least, a NOTICE here. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2014-04-28 21:28:25] requinix@php.net Related To: Bug #67149 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2013-08-20 08:33:54] requinix@php.net Related To: Bug #65484 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2012-09-04 17:54:36] ajf at ajf dot me Well, according to someone in internals whose name I forgot, NULL[$anything] is implicitly NULL. Which I think is rather absurd, personally. I don't see why it's not an error. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2012-08-08 07:10:11] julien at palard dot fr laruence@php.net : Nice for const array dereference :-) But what about the point of the ticket : $foo = NULL; echo $foo["bar"]; that fails silently ? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2012-08-08 02:36:41] laruence@php.net const array dereference is only in trunk ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The remainder of the comments for this report are too long. To view the rest of the comments, please view the bug report online at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=62769 -- Edit this bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=62769&edit=1