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Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 11/26/05 17:41
Geoff Berrow wrote:
> Message-ID: <8rWdnQT4IpqZOBreRVnyvQ@pipex.net> from Oliver Saunders
> contained the following:
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>>$str{} is deprecated
>>$str[] was deprecated but is now undeprecated
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> Crazy. I always liked the idea of keeping array elements and string
> elements separate - with novices having a hard enough time understanding
> arrays as it is, any degree of separation is a good thing.
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> I foresee more furrowed brows in my classroom.
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Geoff,
I think I'll have just the opposite effect. Basically it's handing a
string as an array of char, similar to C and C++.
Using the {} syntax has been quite confusing to my PHP students - why
have a special syntax just for strings? Whereas the [] syntax of C and
C++ has made understanding both strings and arrays easier for those
students.
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