Re: [RFC] Binary String Comparison

> On 18 Aug, 2014, at 10:47 pm, Johannes Schlüter <johannes@schlueters.de> wrote: > >> On Mon, 2014-08-18 at 14:44 +0200, Marc Bennewitz wrote: >> The question isn't "What's wrong with ===, strcmp()?" but >> "What's wrong >> with ==, <, >?". >> >> We have a standard way to compare two operands but currently we do some >> magic things to solve something that don't need to be solved. > > Still it is a key property of the language which we can't simply change. > Also mind this: All input data are strings and some databases also > return data as string. So code like > > if ($_GET['id'] > 0) > or > if ($db->fetchRow()[0] == 12) > > which is common will break. Those two cases will actually not be affected, it's strictly string<=>string comparisons that's being discussed here. > Maybe using different sets of operators > would have been better, but that should have happened 20 years ago not > now. > > Also mind consistency: If you change this you probably also have to > change other places where implicit conversion happens, i.e. array keys. > > In the end you get a complete new incompatible language and can throw > away most libraries and so on. > > So in case you have a Tardis, DeLorean with Flux Capacitor or any other > time machine I'm happy to support you in the past, but not this late. > > johannes > > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >