Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:47083 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 79006 invoked from network); 2 Mar 2010 10:55:20 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 2 Mar 2010 10:55:20 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=rquadling@googlemail.com; sender-id=pass; domainkeys=bad Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=rquadling@googlemail.com; spf=pass; sender-id=pass Received-SPF: pass (pb1.pair.com: domain googlemail.com designates 209.85.220.223 as permitted sender) DomainKey-Status: bad X-DomainKeys: Ecelerity dk_validate implementing draft-delany-domainkeys-base-01 X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: rquadling@googlemail.com X-Host-Fingerprint: 209.85.220.223 mail-fx0-f223.google.com Received: from [209.85.220.223] ([209.85.220.223:39623] helo=mail-fx0-f223.google.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id A6/71-01851-69EEC8B4 for ; Tue, 02 Mar 2010 05:55:18 -0500 Received: by fxm23 with SMTP id 23so93972fxm.23 for ; Tue, 02 Mar 2010 02:55:15 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:reply-to:in-reply-to :references:from:date:message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type; bh=A+wjtrfCgNaeyiou8yz7DkVnuDbMR2HV7ZPu7lE4+EQ=; b=xVU+fal3WTnIVV7WvK0YtIqgB137hYcaIillVXVGH5J9DpcHun4S4UNoMbq/SS4rqd seRfqEYs/DXyznWRZlg8b3ovFfqTfOU2Ykfi9x7fr8S+P2AHIxKT8SsGrv0EW/e6+J+y dVvmMDPyRkFz9/bgmA6VzRebc2lklQNeWzFy4= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:reply-to:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id :subject:to:cc:content-type; b=F1Bg7xNBaDELAvzruwQgTVJt3TjXEa3mHGveU/nVPpPf88K97lBRRl0y1G2sWSWlog iBKSPTPKbTXZt4ukH66xwtIa/NPp40atYaxNGC2OmdERLXkWlPJmQ20uxoPlBYPRxBEX IS5id989yezuTd7wSisipXlXqHqrIo+yGQeiI= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.223.143.21 with SMTP id s21mr6468875fau.51.1267527315259; Tue, 02 Mar 2010 02:55:15 -0800 (PST) Reply-To: RQuadling@googlemail.com In-Reply-To: References: <3B776C158D8E4D8D8DEB11A9860B6734@pc> <4B8C3F45.2080502@daylessday.org> Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2010 10:54:55 +0000 Message-ID: <10845a341003020254y2b1a3dere2c6716dc20a0834@mail.gmail.com> To: Derick Rethans Cc: Victor Bolshov , internals@lists.php.net Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Scary note for gettype() in docs From: rquadling@googlemail.com (Richard Quadling) On 2 March 2010 10:25, Derick Rethans wrote: > On Tue, 2 Mar 2010, Victor Bolshov wrote: > >> From the user point of view it might seem that 5.x "string" and 6.x >> "unicode" are all strings, whatever you call them. Still, I am sure >> there _is_ a background for the decision to distinguish between >> "string" and "unicode". > > Yes, there *has* to be a difference between "string" and "unicode" > because otherwise you can't distinguish between binary goo and strings. > > Derick > > -- > http://derickrethans.nl | http://xdebug.org > twitter: @derickr > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > So