Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:37841 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 91594 invoked from network); 23 May 2008 19:54:04 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 23 May 2008 19:54:04 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=andrei@gravitonic.com; sender-id=unknown Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=andrei@gravitonic.com; spf=permerror; sender-id=unknown Received-SPF: error (pb1.pair.com: domain gravitonic.com from 64.233.170.189 cause and error) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: andrei@gravitonic.com X-Host-Fingerprint: 64.233.170.189 rn-out-0910.google.com Received: from [64.233.170.189] ([64.233.170.189:10099] helo=rn-out-0910.google.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 2C/D3-03677-CD027384 for ; Fri, 23 May 2008 15:54:04 -0400 Received: by rn-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id v73so694677rnb.0 for ; Fri, 23 May 2008 12:54:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.114.183.1 with SMTP id g1mr2284270waf.3.1211572441040; Fri, 23 May 2008 12:54:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Macintosh-5.local ( [12.51.40.234]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id m28sm8249546poh.10.2008.05.23.12.53.59 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Fri, 23 May 2008 12:54:00 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <483720D5.6070701@gravitonic.com> Date: Fri, 23 May 2008 12:53:57 -0700 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (Macintosh/20070807) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Steph Fox CC: internals References: <00a701c8bcfb$cdfa5f50$4401a8c0@foxbox> <483711EE.5060506@gravitonic.com> <010d01c8bd0e$9f633550$4401a8c0@foxbox> In-Reply-To: <010d01c8bd0e$9f633550$4401a8c0@foxbox> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] BC an' all that From: andrei@gravitonic.com (Andrei Zmievski) That would be a major WTF factor for me: strings are unicode but (string) is binary. -Andrei Steph Fox wrote: >> Because the majority of use cases involving strings do not involve >> binary strings. Or, as Rasmus said, "logic". > > Not strings, *casts* to string. > > Or is there no way to differentiate between them? > > - Steph >> >> -Andrei >