Pierre wrote:
On Wed, 15 Mar 2006 12:26:53 -0800
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrei Zmievski) wrote:
I guess I can live with this. It's just a little strange that we have
only 2 string types, but 3 casts..
I find that confusing too. Given the commit log, it is even more
confusing:
- Updated is_string():
If Unicode semantics is turned on, return "true" for Unicode strings
only. If Unicode semantics is turned off, return "true" for native
strings only.
It makes is_string basically useless, I can imagine two solutions:
- keep it and always returns true (unicode and binary strings are
strings anyway)
- deprecate it in php 6.0, it will still returns true. At least
people will know that they should use the new functions
There is maybe a third solution, but certainly too drastic, remove
is_string :)
--Pierre
I think, to keep bc, it would be best to do as you say in point #1:
is_string() returns true on unicode, native AND binary strings
is_unicode() returns true only on unicode strings
is_binary() returns true only on binary strings
which would mean that string = unicode|binary.
- tul
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