Re: http://bugs.php.net/bugs.php?id=8409

At 05:58 6/1/2001, Cynic wrote:

Methinks (YMMV) implicit conversions were meant to make things easier, not complicated, let alone impossible.

They were intended to make things easier, and they do. The price, though, is that when the default behavior of PHP doesn't suit your needs, you have to put in additional work in order to achieve what you want. If you stop for a minute and think about the consequences of avoiding these auto conversions, you'd realize that they are one of the main things that make scripting in PHP so intuitive.

Can arrays in PHP change a bit, or are they carved in stone yet? Is, for example, change to extract() so that

For this purpose, they're carved in a diamond :) Zeev -- Zeev Suraski <zeev@zend.com> CTO & co-founder, Zend Technologies Ltd. http://www.zend.com/