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[Adam Maccabee Trachtenberg]

On Fri, 8 Aug 2003, David Mintz wrote:

> I just found out that this is legal
> 
> $minutes = array(''=>" ","00"=>"00","30"=>"30"); //etc
> 
> Is this  -- the fact that you can get away with using an
> empty string as an array key -- a bug or a feature (or neither)?

I believe it is a feature. The empty string is a valid string and
differentiable from NULL. In fact, if you are creative enough, you can
name variables (or array elements) all sorts of stupid names:

${"\n"} = 'return';
$a = compact("\n");
print_r($a);

Array
(
    [
] => return
)

-adam

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