but yeah the only times really I've had it swap out is when I've either been writing some software and fucked something up and tried to allocate some stupid amount of RAM, or when I've been in photoshop or something and tried to create an image that's way too big and in those situations I'd rather just have it kill the application
i thought I might have run into trouble with that {$foo['bar']}->field versus $foo{['bar']->field} change or whatever the hell it was, but I didn't know about the curly brackets syntax when I wrote it so all the code like that in my codebase does $a = $foo['bar']; $a->field
think we were on php 4 when I started using it, back in the days of the "magic quotes" fiasco, and some of my code is still that old so it's nice it still works properly