I think I should download a new php manual because I have manual from
2005-12-01 and there is a note in Types -> Strings:
For backwards compatibility, you can still use array-brackets for the
same purpose. However, this syntax is deprecated as of PHP 4.
Martin
Matthew Ratzloff wrote:
> Jan,
>
> The {} syntax is deprecated in PHP 6. I also believe it returns an
> E_STRICT warning as of 5.1. Braces make sense when coming from
> languages like C (where strings are simply character arrays) and the
> bracket notation always seemed sort of kludgy to me anyway.
>
> -Matt
