Re: [RFC] Binary String Comparison
| From: | Adrian Guenter | Date: | Sun, 17 Aug 2014 20:45:07 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: [RFC] Binary String Comparison | ||
| References: | 1 2 | Groups: | php.internals |
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Type juggling is a (major) feature of PHP which would effectively be
neutered by this change. As Sara mentioned we already have tools to achieve
binary and string comparison.
On Aug 17, 2014 4:19 PM, "Sara Golemon" <pollita@php.net> wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 17, 2014 at 12:58 PM, Marc Bennewitz <php@mabe.berlin> wrote:
> > I've created a draft RFC and patch to change the behavior of non-strict
> > string to string comparison to be binary safe (as the strict comparison
> > operator does):
> >
> > https://wiki.php.net/rfc/binary_string_comparison
> >
> If I understand your goal correctly, you seem to want to change a very
> fundamental (and ancient) behavior of the language even though
> mechanisms already exist to do what you describe as the "changed
> behavior".
>
> What exactly is wrong with ===, strcmp(), etc..?
>
> -Sara
>
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