Re: Boolean type forced on string assignment inside if statement

From: Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2013 22:25:42 +0000
Subject: Re: Boolean type forced on string assignment inside if statement
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2013/1/4 tamouse mailing lists <tamouse.lists@gmail.com> > 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 && $b) > > it's because you got lucky, not because it's correct. > Sorry, but ... well, I don't understand you :X When I want "&&" and type "&" it's simply a bug, but sometimes I want "&", for example like in "$a & FLAG_ALLOWED", so I don't know, what you are talking about right now -- github.com/KingCrunch

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