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Subject: AW: AW: [PHP-DEV] dropping curly braces
From: mp@webfactory.de ("Matthias Pigulla")

> For the 13th time.  {} is not going away in 5.1.

From the NEWS file:

16 Nov 2005, PHP 5.1 Release Candidate 5
- Added an E_STRICT warning on the usage of {} for accessing of string
offsets.
  (Ilia)

That is, code that has been tested with RC4 and that worked (not even a
notice on whatever error reporting level) might suddenly misbehave
(produce warnings) as of RC5.

Now don't start that stupid "disable error output on production systems"
discussion again. I want my code to work on whatever setup my customers
use and I have no control over that.

Even if it's as simple as emitting a warning - it is a stupid,
unnecessary change in the RC phase. That is about professionalism.

-mp.