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Re:25 Years of PHP by DonHopkins on Wednesday June 10, 2020 @03:23PM (#23480997)
Oh, come on, don't try to defend a PHP design flaw by blaming people who use perfectly valid file names, and people who do perfectly valid things like using file names as array keys.

Can you actually refer me to a programming language style guide that says not to use file names as array keys, or are you just pulling that out of your ass -- I mean theorycrafting?

I've got a great idea, inspired by mysql_real_escape_string: PHP should have a real_array() function and data type that doesn't screw you when you use file names as keys! Now we just have to get all the php programmers to defensively use the "real" version of every function and data type, just in case. And also a linter that complains when you use functions without the word "real" in them.

Sarcasm aside, can we please stop blaming the victims to whitewash PHP's obvious design flaws?

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Re:25 Years of PHP by mikeyjk on Thursday June 11, 2020 @04:14AM (#23486382)
> or are you just pulling that out of your ass -- I mean theorycrafting?

That seems really uncharitable, he's just trying to better understand the issue and reason about why it may not have been an issue for him. Can we not all agree that if there are objective flaws in PHP, speaking about it objectively might be the simplest way to communicate it? I feel like you're quite emotionally charged, which isn't always a bad thing but I could imagine it being quite discouraging for other people to deal with.

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