Re: Allow empty property names
| From: | Yasuo Ohgaki | Date: | Fri, 25 Mar 2016 23:08:59 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Allow empty property names | ||
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Hi Marco,
On Sat, Mar 26, 2016 at 8:00 AM, Marco Pivetta <ocramius@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 25 March 2016 at 23:56, Yasuo Ohgaki <yohgaki@ohgaki.net> wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> On Sat, Mar 26, 2016 at 5:31 AM, Marco Pivetta <ocramius@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > var_dump((object) ['' => 'foo']);
>> > var_dump((object) ["\0*\0" => 'foo']);
>> > var_dump((object) ["\0Foo\0" => 'foo']);
>>
>> Allowing null char would be too much. We reject null char in path
>> parameters, it should be rejected like path parameter. IMHO.
>
>
> The sequence "\0*\0" means "protected property", while the sequence
> "\0Foo\0" means "private property of class Foo": that's been the case
> for a
> looooong time :-)
Oh. Was it? I've never used and encountered this. Thanks.
I'll avoid null char as I use PostgreSQL JSONB extensively, though.
> Not suggesting allowing "\0" for property names: the example just shows
> creating a public, private and protected property with an empty name.
Could you show some real world example use cases?
Regards,
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Yasuo Ohgaki
yohgaki@ohgaki.net