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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Proposal for serious BC compatibility aka language
 versioning
From: rasmus@lerdorf.com (Rasmus Lerdorf)

On 02/03/2013 02:39 PM, Karoly Negyesi wrote:
>> array_diff_asccoc() comparing array(1,2,3) to "Array" and saying those
>> were equivalent without any sort of notice.
> 
> That's not what happened, some contib was comparing array(1,2,3) to
> array(1,2,array(3)) and even looking at the documentation it is not
> clear whether the cast should or should not throw a notice. But, if
> that's desired behavior, I will add a note to warn people.

The cast should always throw a notice. The function is documented to
only compare single-dimensional arrays, so if you pass it a
multi-dimensional array it is going to treat them as a single
dimensional and the only way to do that is to cast them to scalars.

-Rasmus