Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:74673 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 32605 invoked from network); 1 Jun 2014 19:09:45 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 1 Jun 2014 19:09:45 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=ajf@ajf.me; sender-id=pass Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=ajf@ajf.me; spf=pass; sender-id=pass Received-SPF: pass (pb1.pair.com: domain ajf.me designates 198.187.29.248 as permitted sender) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: ajf@ajf.me X-Host-Fingerprint: 198.187.29.248 imap7-3.ox.privateemail.com Received: from [198.187.29.248] ([198.187.29.248:34832] helo=imap7-3.ox.privateemail.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 67/03-15017-87A7B835 for ; Sun, 01 Jun 2014 15:09:44 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.privateemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB7AE60384; Sun, 1 Jun 2014 15:09:40 -0400 (EDT) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at imap7.ox.privateemail.com Received: from mail.privateemail.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (imap1.ox.privateemail.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id vHZ4-cmnAzOs; Sun, 1 Jun 2014 15:09:40 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [192.168.0.200] (unknown [90.203.28.11]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.privateemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 3E88B6037A; Sun, 1 Jun 2014 15:09:38 -0400 (EDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 7.3 \(1878.2\)) In-Reply-To: Date: Sun, 1 Jun 2014 20:09:35 +0100 Cc: Stas Malyshev , PHP internals Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-ID: <0CF7DFF1-106F-4485-A371-EF52DA624798@ajf.me> References: <6E3D6B3F-1BD6-42A2-B59C-12B9D6D597ED@ajf.me> <538B6D49.3030402@sugarcrm.com> <2F19394F-C75C-40E8-94C3-507FAA9ADE28@ajf.me> <71878B94-F83E-4787-BC5C-75F43FB00911@ajf.me> To: Rafael Kassner X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1878.2) Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Bare Name Array From: ajf@ajf.me (Andrea Faulds) On 1 Jun 2014, at 19:56, Rafael Kassner wrote: > You missed my point, I'm not saying about undefined constants, I'm = saying > about the usage of defined constants as array keys. If the array > declaration don't expand constants to strings anymore, many code will > break. I haven=92t changed that. =3D> still works the same as ever. I=92m = adding a colon syntax which takes a bare name instead of an expression. > If we expand constants within array declaration, someone can mess up > the code by adding a define() somewhere above and don't even realize = what's > wrong (constants have global scope). But that=92s how it works at present. People writing array(foo =3D> 3) = and assuming that=92s the same as array(=91foo=92 =3D> 3) need to try = turning display_errors on. -- Andrea Faulds http://ajf.me/