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To: Ferenc Kovacs <tyra3l@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] 5.4 regression: non-existent sub-sub keys now have values
From: pierre.php@gmail.com (Pierre Joye)

On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 3:19 PM, Ferenc Kovacs <tyra3l@gmail.com> wrote:

> if we allow strings to be used as indexes for strings, we have to be
> consistent with what we have already.

Short notice to avoid confusion:

It has nothing to do with allowing string, or double, or whatever else
but loosely typing. Loosely typing is what is happening here, the op
fetching a byte gets an integer, as usual.

Cheers,
-- 
Pierre

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