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Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2004 14:16:43 +0200
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Illegal use of string offset
From: helly@php.net (Marcus Boerger)

Hello Christian,

Tuesday, April 27, 2004, 1:34:47 PM, you wrote:

> Marcus Boerger wrote:
>>>[ $a = 'foo'; $a['bar'] = 42; has an even weirder behaviour: It results 
>>>in the string '4oo'... ]
>> 
>> That's a pretty. It is using 'bar' as a sting index to 'foo' and to do
>> this it needs to convert 'bar' to an integer. The rest is obvious.

> So you find it obvious that 42 is cast to string and the first character 
> is used as replacement? Wasn't obvious to me before I tried it :-)

That's what i meant it confuses far too many people and doesn't even make
real sense. For example converting 42 into chr(42) and setting it would
follow the same autoconversion logic. Hence a hint of kind E_STRICT would
be very good.

marcus