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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] RFC: Stop to automatically cast numeric-string to int
 when using them as array-key
From: smalyshev@gmail.com (Stanislav Malyshev)

Hi!

> I don't think this behavior should be considered as "normal" and would like
> to propose to change this for PHP 9, as it's a BC-break. To me it can and

It'd not be just a BC break, it'd be an absolutely massive BC break that 
has a potential to break a ton of code and would be extremely hard to 
detect. This is not something that should be changed in an advanced 
version of the language.
-- 
Stas Malyshev
smalyshev@gmail.com