Re: 5.4 regression: non-existent sub-sub keys now have values

Hi, 2011/11/24 Rasmus Lerdorf <rasmus@lerdorf.com>: > On 11/24/2011 01:08 PM, Pierre Joye wrote: >> hi Rasmus, >> >> On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 9:35 PM, Rasmus Lerdorf <rasmus@lerdorf.com> wrote: >> >>> I had a quick look through the Drupal code. I don't see a single place >>> that this is done where a deeply nested array index is applied to a >>> string. I think you are misunderstanding what has changed here. >> >> We are leading to yet another underestimated impact to userland code, >> for zero gain. >> >> The risk is to high, let revert that please. > > For all the people saying, "Revert". You guys realize that also means we > revert all the array dereferencing we added elsewhere, right? That > includes function array dereferencing which pretty most everyone has > been clamoring for for years. > > So just to clarify, you think we should remove function array > dereferencing? Otherwise, please provide a proposal for how we separate > these various derefencing mechanisms in a way that doesn't completely > destroy the clean and consistent implementation we have right now. > > -Rasmus The function array dereferencing is unrelated to these changes (it just touched the parser), i.e. it uses the same code used to access the array directly. -- Regards, Felipe Pena