Hi: I think it is really need make some difference between {} and []
:) thanks On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 4:56 PM, Lester Caine <les...@lsces.co.uk> wrote: > Etienne Kneuss wrote: >>>> >>>> AFAIK this is one of the change that was explicitly put in to make it >>>> >> more consistent. >>> >>> > >>> > But now it breaks code in the wild. I came across this due to an >>> > isset() in PEAR now passing when it didn't before. >> >> PEAR is definitely doing some strange things:) Is it checking indices >> of a variables without checking first if it's an array? >> Sounds like the comeback of "Please don't break bad code!" seen with >> is_a:) >> >> IMO it still makes sense to make that change for 5_4, makes everything >> less magic and more consistent. > > I'm having a lot of trouble with working out WHAT is going on here at all. > > https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=60362 as far as I can tell is using array > and sub array elements? Strings don't come into the equation? So I check if > I've populated the sub-array be seeing if a sub array element exists, such > as would happen if I've populated the array in a previous scan through, but > now I'm getting sub array elements caused by some conversion of the string > making up the element above? > > Now that this activity has been highlighted it may well explain why I'm > getting problems with a section of code that is building a complex tree > structure array from GEDCOM data strings ... since the code is not my own > working out where things were breaking down was a problem I simply do not > have time to investigate. It currently fails on PHP5.4 and it took some time > to tidy the code on 5.3 ... and that still only runs with warnings switched > off :( > > So what is the current preferred method of checking if sub array elements > have been created manually, rather than as 'less magic' string elements? > > -- > Lester Caine - G8HFL > ----------------------------- > Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact > L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk > EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ > Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk// > Firebird - http://www.firebirdsql.org/index.php > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- Laruence Xinchen Hui http://www.laruence.com/ -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php