Re: Boolean type forced on string assignment inside if statement

On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 4:25 PM, Sebastian Krebs <krebs.seb@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 I'm talking about the first case, when it's a bug. Missing important words; "*and it works*, it's because you got lucky, not because it's correct"