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Why? (Score:1)
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)
And, I'm willing to listen to arguments for PHP. What does PHP buy you that you can't get with things like plp [juerd.nl] or the various templating systems?
I've never done any PHP myself, but those I know who have used it are constantly frustrated by the limitations and often resort to Perl on the backend. Why have two languages? The maintenance and support nightmares multiply in that kind of environment, from what I can see.
Maybe PHP had a place once up
Re:Why? (Score:3, Insightful)
Ilya Martynov (http://martynov.org/ [martynov.org])
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