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Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2015 10:30:06 +0200
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To: Stanislav Malyshev <smalyshev@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Array dereferencing of scalars
From: nikita.ppv@gmail.com (Nikita Popov)

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On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 8:53 AM, Stanislav Malyshev <smalyshev@gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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.


I agree with what other people have said here: We should keep the behavior
for NULL, but drop the nonsense for other types - (42)[24] not throwing a
notice is quite ridiculous, that seems like a pretty obvious bug to me.

Nikita

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