Hi all,
Since PHP-5.2.1 we have an artifact of PHP-6 in the engine means we can
define binary strings but such definitions haven't any effect.
So what we can define is the following:
$str = "str";
$bin = b"b\0i\0n";
$str2bin = (binary)$str;
One of the biggest issue is that currently ALL strings will be handled
as ASCII-7 compatible strings on type-juggling but they aren't.
It would be very appreciated if PHP could respect such binary declaration:
* use binary string comparison on compare a binary string to any other
string
* don't convert binary strings into integers on array keys
* allow bitwise operators on binary strings without casting to integer
I don't wont to open such unicode nightmare as it was planned for PHP-6!
In my opinion the above operator changes are enough and therefore
internal functions doesn't need to be changed in the first place. The
only changes *could* be done to functions reading/parsing data to be
auto marked binary like: unpack, stream reading functions opened with
fopen + "b" ...
I don't have enough zend experience and therefore I would like to know
how complicated it would be.
Thoughts?
Marc
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