On 27/02/15 13:45, Benjamin Eberlei wrote:
>>> Drupal admin interface (across the all pages):  One  new E_DEPRECATED
>>> > > warning, which again seems to catch a real bug - stripslsahes() 
>>> > > operating
>>> > > on a boolean.
>>> > >
>> >
>> > All those are due to a bug in substr(), that we see now only thanks to
>> > proper type identification. There is no reason for substr() to ever return
>> > a boolean. It really needs to be fix to always return a string.
>> >
> Yes, weird behavior that substr("", 2, 2); for example returns false. But
> changing thatis just another evil BC break.

Now I don' think that 'weird' ... Although the correct return should
perhaps be 'null', but it's long been practice that s there is no result
we get 'false' so how any places will have a sanity check based on the
'false' return?

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