Re: Array Question

Richard Lynch wrote:

On Wed, July 11, 2007 4:16 pm, Robert Cummings wrote:

But I'd have to say that the intent is not all that clear, really, and I'd be leery of this feature, personally.

I wouldn't be leery at all. It's been around for a very long time and it's documented: http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.types.array.php#language.types.array.casting

As soon as I hit send I knew that would be mis-interpreted... Leery is the wrong word. Sorry. It just seems a bit to clever to me... I suspect I'd skim this code a hundred times and not realize what it was doing. But maybe that's just me. :-)

I would have to agree. I'm a big fan of self-documenting code, and this one requires a little bit more knowledge of the intricacies of PHP than I would expect from your 'average' developer. If performance is going to be an issue (and in terms of cycles I can't see this saving much), buy faster/more hardware - it's far cheaper than developer time!! -Stut -- http://stut.net/