Re: POSIX regex

On 7/19/07, Stanislav Malyshev <stas@zend.com> wrote:

Yeah I also like that casting better than the "u" It's different things. Casting means "create string as binary, then in runtime cast it to unicode", u"" means "this string is unicode". --

You are right that casting means string -> binary, and that runtime cast to unicode means a string is unicode, however, after speaking with many php developers (not internals), the same answer always come up "It's ugly". Does that simply mean that it's ugly ? I believe not, it means that it's also unreadable, unclear at first look, and easy to overlook. One solution that I could foresee would be to recognize (unicode) within a function call. Ex: strlen( (unicode) "Óglaig"); This would runtime-cast Óglaig to a "unicode string". Expected answers: 1) I don't find it to be useful and better than "u" A: It is more readable, easier to find/notice and simply cleaner. 2) No A: Ok.. 3) It's going against the usual casting standard of (type) A: True The decision probably has been made already and if so just let me know and I'll stop trying to rise a voice for the community :P And no, I do not have a patch ;-)

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