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To: "'Moriyoshi Koizumi'" <moriyoshi@at.wakwak.com>
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Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 12:07:49 +0300
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Subject: RE: #31098 [Csd]: isset false positive
From: dmitry@zend.com ("Dmitry Stogov")
References: <4EDBD41E-656F-11D9-B4B2-000A95CE0C62@at.wakwak.com>

Hi Moriyoshi,

I restored old behavior, so now $str["str"] is eqivalent of $str[0].

Thanks. Dmitry.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Moriyoshi Koizumi [mailto:moriyoshi@at.wakwak.com] 
> Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2005 17:28
> To: dmitry@zend.com
> Cc: 'internals Mailing List Developers'
> Subject: Re: #31098 [Csd]: isset false positive
> 
> 
> 
> On 2005/01/13, at 15:21, <dmitry@zend.com> wrote:
> 
> >> I don't quite agree with you. Indeed it's semantically 
> wrong, yet I 
> >> think we leave it to behave as in ZE1, in terms of backwards 
> >> compatibility.
> >
> > I don't think we must make compatibility for bugs.
> 
> Users don't consider a certain behaviour that lasts for years 
> the way we do to be a bug, even if it is inconsistent and 
> rationally wrong, since they often got used to it and 
> supposedly developed some workaround for it while we can 
> rarely predict how they code with it and cope with it.
> 
> Thus we should think of what the word "backwards 
> compatibility" does actually mean.
> 
> Moriyoshi
> 
>