Re: Strange conversion

php4@developersdesk.com wrote: > > Addressed to: Derick Rethans <d.rethans@jdimedia.nl> > Stanislav Malyshev <stas@zend.com> > php-dev@lists.php.net > > ** Reply to note from Derick Rethans <d.rethans@jdimedia.nl> Sun, 17 Dec 2000 16:50:15 > +0100 > > > > Stanislav Malyshev wrote: > > > > > > DR>> I have no problem changing all the functions in strings.c to check if no > > > DR>> array is passed. I simply find it strange that an array is converted to > > > > > > That would be silly thing to do. convert_to_string_ex should be changed, > > > not every function using it. That's the purpose of making functions, after > > > all. > > > > > > DR>> the string "Array", when it is taken as a function parameter. > > > DR>> Another > > > > > > That's PHP 3 legacy, I guess. > > > > I can't imagine that anyone relies on this, so I think it could be > > changed without pain. What do you think? > > I think I may have used this in PHP. I know I have used it in Perl. > It allows a function to work with either a single string, or a list. > If the content of the incoming variable is 'Array' then you pass it > thru a foreach, or while to handle all the parts - else you handle > the single scalar. Many Perl functions work this way, even the built > in ones. What happens here is that any array passwd to a "String-function" gets converted to the string "Array", no matter what the contents of the array is. So it seems somebody is relying on this, how strange it seems to me. So I guess, we'll have to use a notice message for this. I'll do a patch on this, if nobody objects. Derick Rethans --------------------------------------------------------------------- PHP: Scripting the Web - www.php.net - derick@php.net --------------------------------------------------------------------- JDI Media Solutions - www.jdimedia.nl - d.rethans@jdimedia.nl H.v. Tussenbroekstraat 1 - 6952 BL Dieren - The Netherlands --------------------------------------------------------------------- "I don't have a solution but I admire the problem." ---------------------------------------------------------------------