Re: Why the Change in Ver 4?

Yea, it's true. There was a post a couple of weeks ago from Rasmus (IIRC) that explained the reasoning: the [] form is used on strings and arrays, so PHP has to figure out which one it's dealing with before it can return a result. If $myAr[] and $myStr{} are seperate, the interpretter will know instantly which one it's dealing with, and the step can be skipped. Also, IMO, it helps the programmer - you, too, know when you're dealing with strings and when you're dealing with arrays, just by the indexing operator used. --Toby Richard Lynch wrote: > > If that's even true (I dunno) maybe because strings in PHP really aren't > arrays of characters like C... > > And maybe they got plans for arrays that would be too easy to confuse > syntactically with strings or something... > > [shrug] > > -- > Visit the Zend Store at http://www.zend.com/store/ > Wanna help me out? Like Music? Buy a CD: > http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm > Volunteer a little time: http://chatmusic.com/volunteer.htm > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Karl J. Stubsjoen" <karlflips@kstub.com> > Newsgroups: php.general > Sent: Friday, January 26, 2001 10:58 AM > Subject: [PHP] Why the Change in Ver 4? > > > > > >Does Version 4 support either { } "squiglees" or [ ] > > > > >"brackets" in > this > > > > >code: > > > > > > > > > >if($retrn{strlen($retrn)-1} == '&') > > > > >-or- > > > > >if($retrn[strlen($retrn)-1] == '&') > > > > > > > > Yes. This is a 4.x feature only. The idea is that in the long run, > [] > > > > will no longer be supported for string offsets, only {} will. > > > > What is the motivation behind this change? > > > > > > -- > > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net