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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Bug#28151 Writing to Uninitialized Arrays
From: pollita@php.net ("Sara Golemon")

> >Here's what I think is the fix for 28151 (I have no strong feelings on
> >whether or not it belongs in the engine, but I am +1 on it personally).
> >Zend guys?
> >
> PHP has always allowed defining arrays on demand. This would break many
> scripts and I don't see any reason to force people to define variables as
> arrays, especially when these variables are undefined.
>
As I said, I have no >strong< feelings on it, but how about E_STRICT?

And more to the point of my original posting (which I didn't state clearly):
Is that, in fact, the right place for such a notice to be?  I'm more trying
to sanity check my understanding of the engine here than anything.

-Sara