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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] deprecation status of $str{42} versus $str[42]
From: et@php.net (Stefan Walk)

On Saturday 14 June 2008 15:26:20 Lukas Kahwe Smith wrote:
> 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

et@edea:~> php -r '$array = array("bar"); echo $array{0},"\n";'    
bar

So, no "only works with strings". And it has been the preferred way to deal 
with string offsets for years. Undocumenting it will mean a feature that is 
used quite a bit because of this is not to be found in the documentation. Not 
really a good idea.

Regards,
Stefan