Re: [RFC brainstorm] Approximately equals operator

> Le 1 avr. 2025 à 00:03, Niels Dossche <dossche.niels@gmail.com> a écrit : > > 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. > > [...] > First of all, if $a == $b holds, then $a ~= > $b obviously. > The true power lies where the data is not exactly the same, but "close enough"! > Hi Niels, A major issue with the == operator, is that it is not transitive: https://3v4l.org/dISMi I firmly think that it should corrected this with the new ~= operator: it will make approximate code easier to reason about. As a bonus, with this amendment, the principle of explosion could be used to severely optimise the implementation. —Claude