Re: [RFC] Binary String Comparison

From: Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2014 20:45:07 +0000
Subject: Re: [RFC] Binary String Comparison
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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 > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >

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