zend_hash_update question

Hi folks, while fixing http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=48557 I was wondering why zend_hash_update doesn't automatically convert numeric strings to integers. Doing $foo = array('1' => 'bar'); actually results in an integer key with value 1, not in a string. The problem in the bug above was that when ext/soap decodes keys from a hashmap, it won't convert numeric string keys to integers. As a result, such items in an array were never accessible from PHP code (that is, unless you did some array_keys()/array_values() stunts, of course). Is this intentional? It seems that every internal feature that would like to deal with hashes needs to implement this string->int casting behavior of PHP itself. Why doesn't zend_hash_update() do it automatically? Cheers, David

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