Re: [PHP-DEV] http://bugs.php.net/bugs.php?id=8409 From: Cynic (cynic <email protected>)
Date: 01/08/01

Well,
this is not entirely true. I cannot do more than the language
will allow me to.
If PHP preserved the type of array indices, and it "didn't suit
my needs, I could put in additional work in order to achieve"
conversion e. g. from string to int. However, PHP will convert
array( '1' => 'aaa' , '2' => 'bbb' , '3' => 'ccc' ) ;
to
array( 1 => 'aaa' , 2 => 'bbb' , 3 => 'ccc' ) ;
no matter what I try to do to convince it I want the array
indexed with numeric strings.

I know, I know... It's just this was driving me mad.
BTW, what about the extract() question?

At 19:13 6.1. 2001, Zeev Suraski wrote the following:
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>At 05:58 6/1/2001, Cynic wrote:
>>Methinks (YMMV) implicit conversions were meant to make things
>>easier, not complicated, let alone impossible.
>
>They were intended to make things easier, and they do. The price, though, is that when the default behavior of PHP doesn't suit your needs, you have to put in additional work in order to achieve what you want. If you stop for a minute and think about the consequences of avoiding these auto conversions, you'd realize that they are one of the main things that make scripting in PHP so intuitive.
>
>>Can arrays in PHP change a bit, or are they carved in stone
>>yet? Is, for example, change to extract() so that
>
>For this purpose, they're carved in a diamond :)
>
>Zeev
>
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that virtue constitutes happiness and that self control is
the essential part of virtue.

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