RE: [PHP-DEV] RE: Bug #2965

>I'm conflicted on this one. On the one hand you've got PHP >somewhat at fault for treating letters as special characters >(such that 'Z'+1 == 'AA') rather than as their ordinal >equivalents (such that 'Z'+1 == ord('Z')+1 == 91 == ord('[') >== '[' ) which IMO is an ugly thing. I personally like the C-consistency here, at least on this issue. >On the other hand, while it's inconsistent with C, it's >perfectly in line with Perl and it's a performance trend which >is presumably being relied upon by some. I can certainly see >where such behavior (heretofore unexpected by me) would come >in handy in fact. Where possibly would this behavior of 'Z'+1 = 'AA' be useful? >Against my better judgement, I'm voting to leave the >interpreter as is and make notes in the documentation to >clarify behavior. Given the choice, I'm personally for having single-characters treated as ordinals when appropiate. John >-Pollita > > > >