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[John Campbell]

> operation works well,  but I find it pretty obnoxious that:
>
> (1) This throws warnings on a missing keys if a certain bit is set in
> error_reporting,  and
> (2) It's not possible to have strict checking of variable names without also
> turning on strict checking of array keys  (which I'd usually expect to be a
> bit sloppier)
>
> Any thoughts?

+1
The lack of a default dictionary in php does suck.  Of course one can
work around this with a function like issetor($array,$key,$default),
but in my opinion that makes for ugly code.

Of course it is possible to create a class with this behavior using
SPL, but that doesn't take care of the superglobals and there might be
performance problems.

-John Campbell