Re: Null bytes in anonymous class names

On 9 November 2015 at 13:46, Derick Rethans <derick@php.net> wrote: > On Thu, 5 Nov 2015, Niklas Keller wrote: > >> I discovered today that anonymous class names contain a null byte >> right after "class@anonymous". I don't think class names should >> contain non-printable characters. >> >> How about removing that null byte? > > I would suggest replacing it with something else. As I am making this > work for Xdebug, I really need to ship the full name to the IDE so that > they can later do look-ups on anonymous class properties, and with the > \0 the IDEs seem to fuck this up. I suggest using another @ instead of > the \0. Just to add another voice: +1 for this (or something similar). Having the \0 can be worked around, but just not having to deal with it at all is a hell of a lot easier for those of us working on third party tooling. Adam