Re: Looking for an explanation

From: Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 23:45:06 +0000
Subject: Re: Looking for an explanation
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Oliver Block wrote: > Hello list, > > as you are familiar with the source code of php it might be easy to explain > how the brain of php interprets the following code: I think that this would be better suited to the startard PHP list. I would suggest posting any further followups there. > > print ($life = "hard") -1; ($life="hard") assigns "hard" to $life and returns "hard" "hard" -1 casts "hard" to an integer to do a math operation, "hard" casts to 0 0 -1 is -1, so -1 is printed > print "\nlife: {$life}\n"; Now you simply print the value of $life, "hard" David

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