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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Proposal: Raise severity of undefined constants
From: rowan.collins@gmail.com (Rowan Collins)

Benjamin Eberlei wrote on 28/01/2015 08:43:
> I think this is too big a BC break.
>
> The usage of $array[key] = 0 instead of "key" is widespread.

As I mentioned, the advice *not* to write that has been in the manual 
since 2001, so I can't think why any tutorial or example code would 
teach it as the right way, but it is possible, I suppose.

I realise the majority of code is not available publicly, but it would 
be good to make some attempt to judge whether it really is widespread, 
so if you have any examples or way of measuring it, that would be useful.

Regards,
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Rowan Collins
[IMSoP]