[Zeev Suraski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>]
> Hey,
>
> I just got around to writing a PHP script that uses stat(), and was
> quite surprised to find that instead of using string indices, it uses
> hardcoded/obscure numeric indices, e.g.:
>
> Array
> (
> [0] => 2050
> [1] => 1114462
> [2] => 16877
> [3] => 2
> [4] => 503
> [5] => 513
> [6] => 11065
> [7] => 1024
> [8] => 989532201
> [9] => 989532201
> [10] => 989532201
> [11] => 4096
> [12] => 2
> )
>
> Is there any reason for this? If not, I'd like to add meaningful
> names as well (I guess it's way too late to remove the numeric indices)
Why not have both numerical and descriptive indices? Backwards
compatible, slightly bloatish, but not really a problem.
- Stig
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Stig Sæther Bakken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Fast Search & Transfer ASA, Trondheim, Norway
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