Re: associative arrays: usage inside double-quoted strings: documentation gap

Jeroen van Wolffelaar writes: > Note that one of the examples in the real doc uses this syntax! > (in http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.types.array.php) > $a[3]['bar'] = 'Bob'; > echo "This will work: " . $a[3][bar]; > > But you're right, this should not work, because it can be ambibious. Well, it should work--it is just bad practice. When someone comes along and isn't using quotes and does something like $arr[default] we invariably get questions because 'default' is a keyword and it screws up the script. > If i make an update for that page, will it be committed? I understand Probably. Do you have a copy of the doc sources? > you don't have the time (for now) to do it yourself, while these Yeah, but there are a bunch of folks working on the docs, so someone would get to it. > basic-syntax things are IMHO quite important to be documented correctly, > even > more because it is quite strange how this behaves. > > The curly brace behavior is even worse documented. Yup. -- +----------------------------------------------------------------+ |Torben Wilson <torben@php.net> Adcore Finland| |http://www.coastnet.com/~torben http://www.adcore.com| |Ph: 1.604.709.0506 torben@adcore.com| +----------------------------------------------------------------+