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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] deprecation status of $str{42} versus $str[42]
From: jani.taskinen@sci.fi (Jani Taskinen)

Correct me if I'm wrong but wasn't that the last decision we made about it the 
last time this was brought up? Just undocument it. Totally. It exists, only 
works with strings (right?! :) and is not recommended. So simply make it 
disappear from the docs. "See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil.." ;)

--Jani


Markus Fischer kirjoitti:
> Hi,
> 
> I don't get this deprecation and thus the forced code change at all. 
> Considering the amount of code using this style, see
> http://www.google.com/codesearch?as_q=\%24[a-z][a-z0-9_]*{[^}]%2B}&hl=en&as_lang=php 
> 
> and given that no PHP code change has been done I would rather suggest 
> removing the chase for deprecation in this case and remove this from the 
> documentation and let the syntax exist that way as long as PHP lives.
> 
> - Markus
> 
> 
> Philip Olson wrote:
>> Hello geeks,
>>
>> This email is to confirm that $str{42} is deprecated in favour of 
>> $str[42] as of PHP 6. There is some confusion so let's make something 
>> official here.
>>
>> A little history:
>>  - May, 2001: $str[42]: is documented as deprecated since PHP 4
>>  - Nov, 2005: $str[42]: kept while $str{42} is instead deprecated. 
>> Discussed:
>>                         - http://markmail.org/message/tmvkpknlzfij5k5o
>>  - Nov, 2005: $str{42}: 5.1 RC5 throws E_STRICT for $str{42} but 
>> removed before release
>>  - May, 2006: $str[42]: switches from deprecated to "preferred" in docs
>>  - Aug, 2006: $str{42}: documentation reads "deprecated as of PHP 6"
>>
>> Currently it emits no errors when one plan was to deprecate it in PHP 
>> 5.x and remove in PHP 6.0 but that doesn't appear the plan today.
>>
>> So unless this thread changes something, an E_DEPRECATED will be added 
>> to HEAD (PHP 6.0.0) for curly brace string access ( $str{42} ) and the 
>> documentation will remain as is.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Philip
>>
>>
>