On November-23-11 5:31 PM Gustavo Lopes wrote: > On Wed, 23 Nov 2011 21:06:09 -0000, Pierre Joye <pierre....@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > The fact that we have reports here showing code not working anymore > > because of this change tells me that it is a BC break. We can call it > > a bug fix but it still breaks code out there for no real benefit but > > edge case usages. We had this situation before, that does not help > us. > > > > I'd say for no benefit at all. Why would anyone ever want to take a > string offset from a string that certainly has length 1? Except for > taking satisfaction in this "improved consistency", I see absolutely no > benefit. > > Up until now, it was deemed a useless but innocuous change. Now that we > found it has pernicious side effects, we ought to revert it.
Notwithstanding that this behaviour was possible because of a bug, it has admittedly been relied on since time immemorial, making it a significant BC break. As distasteful as it seems, it absolutely should be reverted IMHO. Best Regards, Mike Robinson -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
