Re: [RFC] Comparison and conversion inconsistency - need more info

On 10/11/2013 10:18, Yasuo Ohgaki wrote:

Yes, but the result differs when comparison is done as expression. (e.g. if (expression))

I can't find any discrepancy with how NULL behaves (as others have pointed out, your earlier example was echoing the wrong message). However, it does seem that TRUE behaves differently, based on the test code below (see http://3v4l.org/7HGVI for full results):

function which_is_lower($a, $b) {

    if ( $a < $b )
    {
        return $a;
    }
    else
    {
        return $b;
    }

} function compare_comparisons($a, $b) {

    echo 'min() gives: ';
    var_dump( min($a, $b) );
    echo 'comparison with < gives: ';
    var_dump( which_is_lower($a, $b) );

} echo "\n", '-1 vs TRUE: ', "\n"; compare_comparisons(-1, TRUE);

Giving

-1 vs TRUE: min() gives: int(-1) comparison with < gives: bool(true)

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