Andrei had the same suggestion, so I went ahead and added it last night.

-Jason
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From: "Stig Sæther Bakken" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Zeev Suraski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, May 11, 2001 4:18 AM
Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] stat/fstat


> [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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