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Sounds like a jr dev misstep... you're not really bringing up any key points.

• ragnese 6y ago
  It takes 5 seconds on Google to find a myriad complaints about weird, unexpected, and downright incorrect things that PHP does. That wasn't the point of my reply. The point was that language choice CAN affect productivity. And having a bunch of gotchas is something that will negatively affect productivity. I simply gave the first example that popped into my head that actually tripped me up.
  • Supermancho 6y ago
    Unit tests would have caught this, if you wrote them.
    • MrPatan 6y ago
      >Unit tests would have caught this, if you wrote them. If I hadn't considered string-number-keys in my code, I would also have forgotten about them in my unit tests. Maybe you're different.
    • wtetzner 6y ago
      Assuming you thought to test using a string that's all digits. You have to know about PHP's brokenness to even think to check that. In a sane language, it doesn't matter what the contents of the strings are, they're just strings.
    • ragnese 6y ago
      My unit tests did not cover all possible strings, unfortunately.