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Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2009 16:36:36 +0000
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To: Scott MacVicar <scott@macvicar.net>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Patch and test cases too for
From: rquadling@googlemail.com (Richard Quadling)

2009/3/2 Scott MacVicar <scott@macvicar.net>:
> Richard Quadling wrote:
>> Hi.
>>
>> Regarding http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=47493, I've supplied a patch
>> to the unit tests too.
>>
>> Any chance this could get committed to 5.2+
>>
>
> I'm too convinced of the parameter name and I don't think its something
> that should be added to 5.2.9 since its a feature.
>
> Scott
>

5.3+ would be OK then.

As to the param name, I'm not actually changing the name, just adding
another flag.

In javascript's terminology,the output is an array ...

[]

or a hash

{}

So forcing a hash for arrays is pretty much what would be wanted and I
as I comment in the request, we have a "force" option when coming FROM
json data ... json_decode ( string $json [, bool $assoc= false [, int
$depth= 512 ]] )

And the "name" of the param here is appropriate to PHP's use (assoc is
not part of JSON's or JS's terminology).

If you can think of a better name for the flag, then I'd be glad to use it.

Richard.

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