Re: deprecation status of $str{42} versus $str[42]

On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 2:21 AM, Steph Fox <steph@phparch.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > Seems like you are missing some PHP programming basics. Strings are not an >> array of chars, please go back to making ping pong in java c# or whatever >> other little comp sci classes you took. PHP is not any of them. >> Foreach("foo" as $key => $char) {}, after learning, please be quiet and >> let >> andi answer my question on his ideas he had for improvements to the >> existing >> and once favored syntax. >> > > Please, keep this kind of personal abuse off the core development list. It > adds absolutely nothing to the debate, and we're all very, very bored with > it I was trying to have a productive discussion on the topic, his response is the one that added no value, was nothing but a troll. Anyways, I like the fact my response brought up iterating strings, which I think as far as code points or bytes etc, go, really its the same problem as $str{0} on a Unicode string, im sure PHP6 will fix this with Unicode strings. Still, I wish this was not being removed I have a lot of legacy code around that uses it and am sure many companies do as well, and it has always felt more correct _to_me_ but it is what it is. Case closed I guess. -Chris