Re: $a{} stuff

On Sat, 3 Jan 2004, Derick Rethans wrote: > I think this sideeffect should be disallowed as it adds a lot of > unreadableness to code. (I do als vagely remember a discussion a year or > something ago which resulted in something like "the offset to a string > should be an integer only, and not for example {1..4} or {-1}". Can't > find this though in the archives. That's a different argument. {1..4} and {-1} both introduce new concepts. I see no reason why {} cannot contain exactly the same things that [] can contain today. And if suddenly [] could only contain integers pretty much every PHP script I have ever written would break. The whole point of {} is to explicitly differentiate an string index from an array index. How that index is specified inside the braces shouldn't differ from one to the other. -Rasmus