Re: fix bug #53432 (Assignment via string index access on an empty string converts to array)

On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 12:47 AM, Yasuo Ohgaki <yohgaki@ohgaki.net> wrote: > Hi all, > > This PR seems good fix for 5.6. > > https://github.com/php/php-src/pull/463 > > Test script: > --------------- > $a = ''; // empty string > $a[10] = 'a'; > echo $a; // "Array" > > $b = ' '; // non empty string > $b[10] = 'b'; > echo $b; // " b" > > Expected result: > ---------------- > " a" > " b" > > Actual result: > -------------- > "Array" > " b" > > Current behavior does not make sense. > The current behavior is that anything "falsey" (e.g. null, false and the empty string) is silently cast to array when an array operation is applied to it. I don't like that behavior, but it's somewhat internally consistent now. Changing it for strings *only* seems a bit weird. Nikita