Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:18009 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 1761 invoked by uid 1010); 14 Aug 2005 00:38:41 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 1745 invoked from network); 14 Aug 2005 00:38:41 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 14 Aug 2005 00:38:41 -0000 X-Host-Fingerprint: 195.197.172.116 gw02.mail.saunalahti.fi Linux 2.4/2.6 Received: from ([195.197.172.116:50191] helo=gw02.mail.saunalahti.fi) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.0 beta r(6323M)) with SMTP id 49/23-33075-F829EF24 for ; Sat, 13 Aug 2005 20:38:40 -0400 Received: from nest.netphobia.fi (YZCLXVIII.dsl.saunalahti.fi [85.76.34.69]) by gw02.mail.saunalahti.fi (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A9DFD0DF6; Sun, 14 Aug 2005 03:38:34 +0300 (EEST) Received: from nest.netphobia.fi (nest.netphobia.fi [127.0.0.1]) by nest.netphobia.fi (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j7E0cb78022479; Sun, 14 Aug 2005 03:38:37 +0300 Received: from localhost (jani@localhost) by nest.netphobia.fi (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) with ESMTP id j7E0bbAD022472; Sun, 14 Aug 2005 03:38:37 +0300 X-Authentication-Warning: nest.netphobia.fi: jani owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2005 03:37:36 +0300 (EEST) Reply-To: Jani Taskinen To: Andrei Zmievski cc: internals In-Reply-To: <73D65ACE-D442-41FF-A35C-42D92F7B7A75@gravitonic.com> Message-ID: References: <42FCE0E4.604@lerdorf.com> <1114795828.20050813012424@marcus-boerger.de> <42FD935D.8060602@prohost.org> <5DC75CC6-B8F8-4431-B031-606EA0BFF912@gravitonic.com> <42FD977E.1030705@prohost.org> <73D65ACE-D442-41FF-A35C-42D92F7B7A75@gravitonic.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 6.0 Wishlist From: sniper@iki.fi (Jani Taskinen) On Fri, 12 Aug 2005, Andrei Zmievski wrote: > We did, but we never arrived at consensus. I don't really see a good reason > for giving people access to code-units with such a low-level operator. If we > fix it, I'd rather fix it so that [] only works on arrays, and {} on strings, +100 > with some sort of BC switch. -Inf We're talking about cleaning up legacy stuff, not creating new, aren't we? :) And iirc, using [] for strings has been "deprecated" for ages now. --Jani