Re: Boolean type forced on string assignment inside if statement
| From: | tamouse mailing lists | Date: | Fri, 04 Jan 2013 21:34:26 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Boolean type forced on string assignment inside if statement | ||
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On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 1:56 AM, Sebastian Krebs <krebs.seb@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2013/1/4 tamouse mailing lists <tamouse.lists@gmail.com>
>> Bit operators are not comparing values, they're COMBINING values.
>
> Technically spoken they're comparing bits, whereas boolean operators does
> the same, but treaten every value as a single bit.
And that's just going to confuse things. "Technically" speaking, bit
operations and NOT logical operations. If you do this:
if ($a & $b)
when you meant this:
if ($a && $b)
it's because you got lucky, not because it's correct.