At 12:18 11/5/2001, Stig Sæther Bakken wrote:
>[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.
Yep, that's the best solution IMHO.
Zeev
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