Posted by Curtis on 12/18/05 05:35

I'm used to working with a strongly-typed language, Object
Pascal, so just plopping a $variable down anywhere takes
some getting used to--particularly when one instance gets
misspelled like $varaible, say.

Hmmm... seems this code was working only a minute ago!

One surprise is PHP's apparent tolerance of referencing
array elements that don't exist. Object Pascal would burp in
a hurry.

Say I go

$parts = explode("|", "x | y | z");

PHP doesn't seem to mind if I tell it

$text = $parts[3].$parts[4];

Is this looseness OK, or is gonna bite us someday?

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Curtis

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