Re: Array dereferencing of scalars

Christoph Becker wrote on 09/06/2015 13:35:

Current behavior: <?php $v = NULL; echo $v->foo->bar; ?> Notice: Trying to get property of non-object in %s on line %d Notice: Trying to get property of non-object in %s on line %d So trying to access a property on NULL gives a notice, but trying to access an element of NULL shouldn't? Also note, that chained property access raises multiple notices.

Again, assignment works differently here: $v = NULL; $v->foo->bar = 42; // Warning: Creating default object from empty value Interestingly, only one Warning is issued for this case, even though the inner value must also be created. This seems like a more useful behaviour, because it doesn't clutter the log/output with repeated notices about a single line. Regards, -- Rowan Collins [IMSoP]