RE: [PHP] == vs = should generate a warning or error -- was: Why won't this work?
| From: | Rasmus Lerdorf | Date: | Fri, 19 Jul 2002 23:01:39 +0000 |
| Subject: | RE: [PHP] == vs = should generate a warning or error -- was: Why won't this work? | ||
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> Wow, that should have been a quiz. I can't believe how many people
> missed the == vs = thing and had all these elaborate answers. *grin*
>
> Which brings me to my point. Rasmus or any other PHP duder out there --
> what are the possibilities of adding a config option in php.ini to WARN
> or ERROR when you try to use = instead of == in conditional checks like
> that.
That would suck since many many PHP programs use stuff like:
while($row=mysql_fetch_row($result)) { ... }
There is absolutely nothing wrong with doing an assignment in a
conditional and if it generated a warning it would drive a lot of people
crazy.
-Rasmus