Richard Lynch wrote:
On Wed, July 11, 2007 4:16 pm, Robert Cummings wrote:
But I'd have to say that the intent is not all that clear, really,
and
I'd be leery of this feature, personally.
I wouldn't be leery at all. It's been around for a very long time and
it's documented:
http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.types.array.php#language.types.array.casting
As soon as I hit send I knew that would be mis-interpreted...
Leery is the wrong word.
Sorry.
It just seems a bit to clever to me...
I suspect I'd skim this code a hundred times and not realize what it
was doing.
But maybe that's just me. :-)
I would have to agree. I'm a big fan of self-documenting code, and this
one requires a little bit more knowledge of the intricacies of PHP than
I would expect from your 'average' developer.
If performance is going to be an issue (and in terms of cycles I can't
see this saving much), buy faster/more hardware - it's far cheaper than
developer time!!
-Stut
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