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Cc: Markus Fischer <markus@fischer.name>,
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] deprecation status of $str{42} versus $str[42]
From: mls@pooteeweet.org (Lukas Kahwe Smith)


On 11.06.2008, at 01:15, Jani Taskinen wrote:

> 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.." ;)


I do not know the decision (anyone who cares about decisions being  
remembered should write an RFC nowadays), but I think what Jani is  
saying sounds reasonable to me.

regards,
Lukas Kahwe Smith
mls@pooteeweet.org