Re: Possibilities to fix some really poor behaviors in PHP7

On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 9:25 AM, Stas Malyshev <smalyshev@sugarcrm.com> wrote: > Hi! > >> ... like the hidden array element: http://3v4l.org/6uFqf >> ... like the hidden object property: http://3v4l.org/RPJXH > > The issue seems to be that array lookup always looks for numeric results > when looking for numeric-like keys. But when adding property, the > numeric check is not done since properties are not supposed to be > numeric. Thus, when converting the object to array, the property named > "123" becomes inaccessible, because in array it is supposed to be under > number 123. > > We could, of course, add numeric checks to properties, but it would slow > things down only to serve very narrow use case with hardly any legit > uses. We could also rewrite hashtable with numeric keys instead of > string keys when doing conversion, but again that would be significant > slowdown for a very rare use case. Not sure it's worth it. I agree that fixing a strange behavior - very little people know about and very few little people use in real case - involving performance penalty for any other use case ; should be a -1 of course. Let's say the behavior is here "by design" ;-) Julien.Pauli