Re: Scary note for gettype() in docs
| From: | Antony Dovgal | Date: | Mon, 01 Mar 2010 22:27:17 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Scary note for gettype() in docs | ||
| References: | 1 | Groups: | php.internals |
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On 03/01/2010 11:35 PM, Stan Vassilev wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> The gettype() documentation warns people that the returned string is "subject to
> change".
> Why is there a function that's subject to change in the API?
Because life is complicated.
Because gettype("test") returns "string" in 5.x and "unicode" in 6.0.
What exactly are you trying to fix? And what exactly are you proposing?
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Wbr,
Antony Dovgal
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