Re: Boolean type forced on string assignment inside if statement
| From: | Marc Guay | Date: | Thu, 03 Jan 2013 17:32:34 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Boolean type forced on string assignment inside if statement | ||
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> Now, I am not sure as to where that would mean anything. Can anyone provide an example where
> using a single pipe would produce different results than using a double pipe?
If PHP had "Eager operators" (thanks Wikipedia), then your first
example would have different output
if (($a = 'foo') | ($b = 'bar'))
{
echo "$a <br > $b";
}
else
{
echo 'Neither are populated';
}
Would spit out:
foo
bar
rather than just
foo
No?