Re: Scalar-type-hinting - which way is the best to go?

> But I just wanted to point out that this is something the author > (and I) would never expect to happen ... > in_array("123abc", array(3, 7, 123, 28)) === true Well, would you never expect select ( '123abc' in (3,7,123,28) ) to return boolean true in SQL? Because it does. Me, I'm happy with the parity of these two languages that so often must work in tandem. YMMV but I don't see anything kooky. As Adam & others have pointed out, the author of that blog post used the original input as-is. Akin to passing a var into a sanitization function (by value), getting a return true, and continuing processing w/the initial var. I'm not saying I haven't done plenty of similarly stupid things, but I don't see them as evidence to be entered against, well, anything except my own incompetence. -- S.