Re: ZE2 / PHP 5 BC breaking suggestion

At 07:39 PM 6/11/2002 +0200, Melvyn Sopacua wrote:

At 19:27 6/11/2002 +0300, Andi Gutmans wrote:

At 12:45 PM 6/11/2002 +0200, Manuzhai wrote:

Using $bla[whatever] won't be deprecated inside "", will it?

What do you mean?

I think I got it: "$foo[bla]" -> but that wouldn't be a good idea.

Ah, now I understand what you meant :) No that isn't going to be deprecated in the near future. Andi

The rule here is, that the outer quotes already specify a string type, so there's no question on whether the result is a string. Further more - constants are not supported inside double quotes, as it would really be hard to distinguish them from human text - for both humans and computers :-). So - there's never a conflict with constants and it would get really messy, in things like this: $sql = "SELECT * FROM table WHERE id='$_REQUEST[\'id\']'";

I didn't quite understand the question. Andi

Manuzhai "Andi Gutmans" <andi@zend.com> wrote in message news:5.1.0.14.2.20020610233003.03b42990@127.0.0.1...

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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