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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 6.0 Wishlist
From: helly@php.net (Marcus Boerger)

Hello Jani,

Sunday, August 14, 2005, 2:37:36 AM, you wrote:

> 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.

agreed totally, thanks and amen (hopefully)

Best regards,
 Marcus