Re: Method compare()

On 08/09/2016 12:33 PM, David Rodrigues wrote:

Currently PHP has a method called "version_compare()". Should be great if we have the same function but to general usage. There are some implementations on web for that, but I guess that it could be done natively.

compare(mixed $a, mixed $b, string $operator): boolean

Then I could do something like that:

compare(1, 2, '>') === false compare('1', 1, '===') === false

It should be very useful to libraries that expects that user pass an operator. For instance:

$collection->where('id', '>', 5) => compare($id, 5, '>')

I guess that it could supports all PHP operators: ==, ===, !=, <>, !==, <, >, <= and >=. The spaceship operator does the works too for integers, but not should works if you expects than $a === $b, or when you expects than $a >= $b.

See the Comparable RFC for something similar: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/comparable -- Stephen