Re: [off] PHP: a fractal of bad design
| From: | Tjerk Anne Meesters | Date: | Mon, 07 May 2012 09:33:08 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: [off] PHP: a fractal of bad design | ||
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>
> I agree with Rasmus (and others) on this one
> (http://www.mail-archive.com/internals@lists.php.net/msg57949.html), type
> numeric conversion on strings on both sides should only happen if both
> strings can be represented as numbers without losing data/precision.
> if one or both of the two sides can't be converted to numeric without data
> loss, then we should compare them as strings.
> the patch from Cataphract (attached at
> https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=54547) implements this behavior
>
+1 ... that patch has been lying on a dusty shelf for more than a year =p