Re: [PHP4BETA] Re: convert_to_string_ex is not the solution.

On Fri, 17 Sep 1999, Joey wrote: > > > > i know a few people - including myself - who add a '&' here and there in > > my scripts to speed things up. and yes, i've got bitten by funtions that > > changed variable-types around without me expecting them to do so. > > > > > > If you _DO_ decide to change this behavior, it should definitely go into > the incompat list. I have actually used this as an undocumented feature... > by calling strlen() on something passed by ref., I programmed some thing > to then expect a str. debugging code written that way must be an adventure! really, if we decide to keep it or not - you should never depend on such undocumneted things. so you're saying that you're using strlen as "convert_to_string_and_return_size()" ? whoaaaa... there are minor incompatible things in 3<->4 (as noted) - but if your code depends on this kind of stuff you'll have a hard time going to 4.0. hmmm, tc > > I agree, it should _NOT_ have been happening, but bcz it did, I programmed > around it...perhaps others did also... > > > -- > PHP 4 Beta > > Thies C. Arntzen "One Big-Mac, Small Fries and a Coke!" Digital Collections Phone +49 40 235350 Fax +49 40 23535180 Hammerbrookstr. 93 20097 Hamburg / Germany