Ashley Sheridan wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-10-22 at 20:04 +0100, Stut wrote:
>> On 22 Oct 2008, at 19:37, ceo@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
>>> I think we need a new error reporting constant E_STUPID.
>>>
>>> This should catch stupid things I do like trying to embed an array
>>> into a string such as:
>>>
>>> $foo = array('a', 'b', 'c');
>>> $query = "select * from foo where foo in ('$foo')";
>>>
>>> It's been one of those days...
>> I've had a great day, but then I'm on leave this week ;)
>>
>> I don't think you're far wrong with this one. I really think trying to
>> use an array as a string should raise a warning. It's easily done and
>> having it spit out "Array" is less than helpful. I think the same
>> should be true of resources except that you should be able to force a
>> resource to a string with an explicit cast. Loose typing is great but
>> there are some conversions that never really make sense.
>>
>> -Stut
>>
>> --
>> http://stut.net/
>>
> I quite like the way that Javascript handles this sort of thing. If you
> use an array in a string, it just spits out all the values in a
> comma-delimited list, which is quite convenient sometimes.
>
>
> Ash
> www.ashleysheridan.co.uk
>
>
That is a feature of Ruby also. I kinda like it. (the feature that is)
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