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

Hi Andrea, On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 6:53 AM, Andrea Faulds <ajf@ajf.me> wrote: > On 20/11/13 21:49, Andrea Faulds wrote: > >> >> Just my 2 cents, but that definitely looks like a situation that might >> crop up in real code unintentionally, and it violates the Principle of >> Least Astonishment IMO. Consider a hypothetical function which returns a >> modified string. If we've ended up with an empty string being passed >> into it, then it suddenly returning an Array is not what you expect, and >> might horribly break code that assumes the result won't be a string. >> >> > Oh dear Andrea, you should proofread your emails better. > s/won't be/will be I agree with your discussion and that's the reason why I sending this PR before I said "it's the spec". I've added this behavior to RFC (NOT for voting) https://wiki.php.net/rfc/comparison_inconsistency?&#conversioncomparison I'm gathering these kind of PHP behaviors. If you have one, please let me know so that I can add issues in the wiki page. (Or even better, please add one to the page) Thank you. -- Yasuo Ohgaki yohgaki@ohgaki.net