Re: ZE2 / PHP 5 BC breaking suggestion

At 10:22 PM 6/10/2002 +0200, Melvyn Sopacua wrote:

At 20:35 10-6-2002, Andi Gutmans shared with all of us:

This is something which can't be broken because too many people use $a[foo] instead of $a['foo']. It'd kill a huge amount of web sites.

Hmm, I see. I suppose (?<=\[)\w+(?=\]) as an exeption to accomodate those errors would be too hard on the parser?

Adding such an exception to the parser is definitely a no-no. Andi

Andi At 09:29 PM 6/9/2002 +0200, Melvyn Sopacua wrote:

Hi, I know it's BC-breaking, but frankly - I do think it should be changed. The following: <?php if(UNDEFINED_CONSTANT) {

        //do stuff

} ?> will result in do stuff being executed. I think it should be changed. Technically, anything not within quotes is not a string. PHP however defaults to the string type when the characters are not in get_defined_constants(). This leads to unexpected behavior and people that do know, need to code: if(defined('SETTING_TRUE') && SETTING_TRUE)) which defeats using a constant in the first place. Comments please - especially if you know of a widely used php-package, which will break when this is changed. Met vriendelijke groeten / With kind regards, IDG.nl Melvyn Sopacua Webmaster -- PHP Quality Assurance Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

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