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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Array dereferencing of scalars
From: smalyshev@gmail.com (Stanislav Malyshev)

Hi!

>  <?php
>  $foo = 42;
>  $foo['bar']; // => NULL
>  $v = NULL; 
>  $v[0][1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9]; // NULL
> 
> this code is semantically wrong and I would like to have error/exception
> for such 
> erroneous codes. It's inconsistent with array object, too.

Why it's wrong? You try to get that's something not there, you get NULL.
I don't see anything wrong. Adding fatal error about every little thing
that isn't as expected never was how PHP worked.

-- 
Stas Malyshev
smalyshev@gmail.com