Re: Scary note for gettype() in docs

From: Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2010 10:25:15 +0000
Subject: Re: Scary note for gettype() in docs
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On Tue, 2 Mar 2010, Victor Bolshov wrote: > From the user point of view it might seem that 5.x "string" and 6.x > "unicode" are all strings, whatever you call them. Still, I am sure > there _is_ a background for the decision to distinguish between > "string" and "unicode". Yes, there *has* to be a difference between "string" and "unicode" because otherwise you can't distinguish between binary goo and strings. Derick -- http://derickrethans.nl | http://xdebug.org twitter: @derickr

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