Re: Illegal use of string offset

Hello Christian, Tuesday, April 27, 2004, 1:34:47 PM, you wrote: > Marcus Boerger wrote: >>>[ $a = 'foo'; $a['bar'] = 42; has an even weirder behaviour: It >>>results >>>in the string '4oo'... ] >> >> That's a pretty. It is using 'bar' as a sting index to 'foo' and >> to do >> this it needs to convert 'bar' to an integer. The rest is obvious. > So you find it obvious that 42 is cast to string and the first character > is used as replacement? Wasn't obvious to me before I tried it :-) That's what i meant it confuses far too many people and doesn't even make real sense. For example converting 42 into chr(42) and setting it would follow the same autoconversion logic. Hence a hint of kind E_STRICT would be very good. marcus