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Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2014 23:08:32 +0100
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To: Stas Malyshev <smalyshev@sugarcrm.com>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [VOTE] Fix list() behavior inconsistency
From: leight@gmail.com (Leigh)

On 25 September 2014 22:50, Stas Malyshev <smalyshev@sugarcrm.com> wrote:
> Hi!
>
>> It was on design. list() was intended to support plain arrays only.
>
> I'm not sure I'm getting this point - why list($a, $b) = $foo is not
> just translated as $a = $foo[0], $b = $foo[1], etc.? Is it hard to make
> it work that way?
>

Why do array_* functions not treat strings as arrays of bytes?

If we we can/want to make strings byte arrays, then I am 100% in
favour of all array operations working on strings. If this is
something we want to work towards for the future, that's great, lets
get busy :) - If we want to say "yea list() should work with strings",
but no other array functions should work with strings, it seems very
odd to me.