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Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2011 22:49:20 +0100
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To: Yasuo Ohgaki <yohgaki@ohgaki.net>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] 5.4 regression: non-existent sub-sub keys now have values
From: tyra3l@gmail.com (Ferenc Kovacs)

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On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 10:44 PM, Yasuo Ohgaki <yohgaki@ohgaki.net> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I should think twice before seding mail. "abc" as array index is
> converted to 0 since it's not a integer. So with current code is
> behave consistently with regards to string to long conversion.
>
> However,
>
> PHP 5.3
> php -r '$s =3D "abc"; var_dump($s[0]["bar"]);'
> PHP Fatal error:  Cannot use string offset as an array in Command line
> code on line 1
>
> PHP 5.4
> ./php -r '$s =3D "abc"; var_dump($s[0]["bar"]);'
> string(1) "a"
>
> Isn't it better to raise notice for accessing string by string index?
> There is no use to allowing string index access to strings. I think
> raising notice is feasible. Isn't it?


agree, and I also suggested adding this notice.

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