Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:38209 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 7860 invoked from network); 14 Jun 2008 13:34:07 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 14 Jun 2008 13:34:07 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=mls@pooteeweet.org; sender-id=unknown Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=mls@pooteeweet.org; spf=permerror; sender-id=unknown Received-SPF: error (pb1.pair.com: domain pooteeweet.org from 88.198.8.16 cause and error) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: mls@pooteeweet.org X-Host-Fingerprint: 88.198.8.16 bigtime.backendmedia.com Linux 2.6 Received: from [88.198.8.16] ([88.198.8.16:59536] helo=bigtime.backendmedia.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 72/10-06776-EC8C3584 for ; Sat, 14 Jun 2008 09:34:07 -0400 Received: from localhost (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by bigtime.backendmedia.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D934E414400C; Sat, 14 Jun 2008 13:28:16 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at backendmedia.com Received: from bigtime.backendmedia.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (bigtime.backendmedia.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 7A5cn0Ps1P5g; Sat, 14 Jun 2008 15:28:15 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [192.168.0.151] (77-57-23-243.dclient.hispeed.ch [77.57.23.243]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: mls@pooteeweet.org) by bigtime.backendmedia.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A606414400A; Sat, 14 Jun 2008 15:28:14 +0200 (CEST) Cc: Markus Fischer , PHP Developers Mailing List Message-ID: <4A532ACE-0EF1-4B52-892E-3E308AE8CCAF@pooteeweet.org> To: jani.taskinen@iki.fi In-Reply-To: <484F0B1C.30003@sci.fi> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v924) Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2008 15:26:20 +0200 References: <77972256-ED0C-4FCE-8DEF-8283FE1BBFC5@roshambo.org> <484F0897.4040405@fischer.name> <484F0B1C.30003@sci.fi> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.924) 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