Re: bitwise operations and Unicode strings

As PHP is loosely typed, "1"==1 is fine. Is it that with Unicode, this looseness is gone? On 29/05/07, Pierre <pierre.php@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi, On 5/29/07, David Coallier <davidc@php.net> wrote: On 5/29/07, Antony Dovgal <antony@zend.com> wrote:

Hello. Do you think the engine should support bitwise operators and Unicode strings? If yes, how do you think it should work? Example: <?php $a = "1"; $a|="2"; var_dump($a); ?> This code outputs "3" in native mode and "Fatal error: Unsupported operand types" in Unicode mode. I believe this is an inconsistency and it should be possible to use Unicode strings there.

Definitely

There are several possible ways to implement it: 1) the same as with native strings - apply the operator to each element of the string separately; 2) convert the string to binary (using say iso-8859-1) and then see 1);

I would probably be for the solution #2 and of course using the unicode.runtime_encoding ini setting to convert it to binary.

We can also leave it as is (since it doesn't seem very useful) or even drop the native strings support (it doesn't seem very useful to me either).

I think this is a bad choice.. might not be useful to you, but might be to some other people I fail to see or imagine any useful usages for such hacks. Laziness justifies it with binary strings (as in 5.x), but as long as an unicode string is given, one should really first cast to integer before using it with a bitwise operator (or any other non string operation). I'm in favour of keeping the current behaviors and drop the native support as well for consistency (and documentation/wtf headaches). --Pierre -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

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