Re: Re: [PHP4BETA] <?$a="1";$a[0]=1;?> cause mem-block overrun.

I think moving string offsets to {} is a very good idea. It seems to me that it would fall under the same category as $a["somevar"] != $a[somevar]...ie, the design isssues are important enough that I don't mind porting my code. --Joey Smith On Sun, 14 Nov 1999, Andi Gutmans wrote: > php-dev people, please read this mail! > > > We support string offsets in PHP 4 for backwards compatibility issues but > the way they share the same notation with array offsets is "not the right > thing". It creates ambiguity and is bad design. > What I'm thinking of doing is separate these two notations before the > release of PHP 4. Maybe add {} for string offsets so you'd do $a{0} when > you mean string offset and $a[0] when you mean array offset. We would only > document {} as string offset support and encourage people to migrate to > this version. In a few months, maybe with PHP 4.1 we would deprecate the > old notation so that the language could be correct and unambiguous. > > Some people might not like this but it really is the best way to go for > PHP. Having the core language contain such a bad design issue in it would > not look good to professionals. If we add this to the release notes of PHP > 4 telling people to convert to the new syntax it would cause very little > headaches later on. > > Andi > --- > Andi Gutmans <andi@zend.com> > http://www.zend.com/ > > -- > PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-dev-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-dev-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net > >