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

On 11/24/2011 01:44 PM, Yasuo Ohgaki wrote: > Hi all, > > I should think twice before seding mail. "abc" as array index is > converted to 0 since it's not a integer. So with current code is > behave consistently with regards to string to long conversion. > > However, > > PHP 5.3 > php -r '$s = "abc"; var_dump($s[0]["bar"]);' > PHP Fatal error: Cannot use string offset as an array in Command line > code on line 1 > > PHP 5.4 > ./php -r '$s = "abc"; var_dump($s[0]["bar"]);' > string(1) "a" > > Isn't it better to raise notice for accessing string by string index? > There is no use to allowing string index access to strings. I think > raising notice is feasible. Isn't it? String index access is still required since they are often numeric strings. We could add a notice for non-numeric strings, but the check would slow things down a bit. -Rasmus