On Thu, May 4, 2006 9:09 am, John Wells wrote: > On 5/4/06, Ford, Mike <M.Ford@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> They're not even that. They're pure associative arrays, or maps -- >> it's just that integer keys are treated somewhat specially so that >> an array with *only* integer keys will look like a traditional >> array. > > True true, thanks for making it crystal clear! IIRC, PHP/FI (aka PHP2) actually did have two different underlying datatypes for hashes and arrays, and the code was simplified in PHP3 to just special-treat hashes with all-numeric indices... I cannot be certain of this -- It's possible that the dichotomy has always been a victim of mis-information. Conceptually, for beginners (or Perl guys) it's maybe easier to pretend they're "different" though :-) -- Like Music? http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
