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Subject: Re: AW: AW: [PHP-DEV] dropping curly braces
From: pookey@pookey.co.uk ("Ian P. Christian")

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On Sunday 20 November 2005 22:21, Christian Schneider wrote:
> I second that as people on the list here are undecided about the removal
> of {} for strings. Keeping that warning creates even more confusion
> about a really minor issue (having two ways of accesing strings offsets).

Whilst I'm not really in favour of the change, I think that a change in PHP=
=20
like this would be far better accepted were it better documented.

The previous major change in PHP got PHP a lot of press, but I didn't read=
=20
anywhere an 'official' document as to why things were changed, explaining i=
n=20
idiot-terms how to fix things, and why the fix was needed.

If this change included a simple sed command that could be applied to code =
to=20
fix 'legacy' code, and a page was put up linked form PHP.net's front page t=
o=20
the documenation explaining why the change took place, then this change wou=
ld=20
be far easier for php users to accept.

BTW, whilst on the topic, was there a document written about why the former=
=20
mentioned change was made?  All I've seen is PHP developers getting stresse=
d=20
and saying 'it was a needed fix', with very little justification. =20

Regards,

=2D-=20
Ian P. Christian ~ http://pookey.co.uk

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