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

Well, this is not entirely true. I cannot do more than the language will allow me to. If PHP preserved the type of array indices, and it "didn't suit my needs, I could put in additional work in order to achieve" conversion e. g. from string to int. However, PHP will convert array( '1' => 'aaa' , '2' => 'bbb' , '3' => 'ccc' ) ; to array( 1 => 'aaa' , 2 => 'bbb' , 3 => 'ccc' ) ; no matter what I try to do to convince it I want the array indexed with numeric strings. I know, I know... It's just this was driving me mad. BTW, what about the extract() question? At 19:13 6.1. 2001, Zeev Suraski wrote the following: -------------------------------------------------------------- >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/ > > >-- >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 > ------end of quote------ ____________________________________________________________ Cynic: A member of a group of ancient Greek philosophers who taught that virtue constitutes happiness and that self control is the essential part of virtue. cynic@mail.cz