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Why? (Score:1)

by shiflett (3841)

I don't really see why this is bad (feel free to show me the errors of my ways, heh). Why should whether PHP behaves like Perl have any bearing on its merits as a language? I'm always happy to listen to the arguments against PHP, and there are some good ones, but this seems a bit trivial to me.

In addition, PHP's implementation makes more sense in this case, especially since it is consistent with other PHP functions. If explode() returns an array, I can be confident that I always get an array, and the eleme
- Re:Why? (Score:1)
  
  by runrig (3385) <dougwNO@SPAMcpan.org> on 2004.01.06 16:52 (#27084) Journal
  
  In addition, PHP's implementation makes more sense in this case
  
  In practice, I've found perl's behavior in this regard convienient. If for some reason I want PHP-like behavior, I can always add a one liner after the split:
  @array = ('') unless @array;
  
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    by runrig (3385)
    
    ...and my resolution for this year is to learn to spell convenient.

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