Re: [RFC brainstorm] Approximately equals operator

On Tue, Apr 1, 2025, 01:03 Niels Dossche <dossche.niels@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi internals! > > I'm excited to share what I've been working on! > I had an epiphany. I realized what we truly need to revolutionize PHP: a > new operator. > > Hear me out. > We live in an imperfect world, and we often approximate data, but neither > == nor === are ideal comparison > operators to deal with these kinds of > data. > > Introducing: the "approximately equal" (or "approx-equal") operator > ~= > (to immitate the maths symbol ≃). > This combines the power of type coercion with approximating equality. > Who cares if things are actually equal, close enough amirite? > > Hi Niels, When I was reading it, I felt a bit unsure, but numbers related, it was making sense. When you got to strings with "This is a tpyo" ~= "This is a typo", I also remembered today it's 1st of April, so there's that... -- Alex