On Tue, 19 Sep 2006, Dmitry Stogov wrote: > As you remember, on PDM we deside to remove IS_BINARY data type and change > symantic of IS_STRING to IS_BINARY in unicode mode. > This patch is long delayed finalization of planned change. > PHP array should be able to have unicode and binary keys, and binary values > shouldn't be converted to unicode. > > $ php -d "unicode.semantics=1" -r 'var_dump(array(b"foo"=>b"foo", > "bar"=>bar));' > > Removing this autoconversion makes programmer's life little bit more > difficult. :(
Yes, I remember... but there is no reason why our internal keys should be defined as binaries. The idea was that you *could* have binary strings as keys to make the hash lookups quicker (as we'd only need to store one hash for each key). I still think that all our extensions should use strings (unicode) as key as that is most likely what people will expect running in unicode mode. Atleast I would expect it, as it's somewhat the same currently semantically. regards, Derick -- Derick Rethans http://derickrethans.nl | http://ez.no | http://xdebug.org -- PHP CVS Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
