note 76171 added to language.operators.comparison

I'm sure others have found this out, but there is no excuse for it: $a = "woiejiowjef"; $b = 0; print ($a == $b); // results in 1 print ("$a" == "$b"); // results in 0 When did PHP get to be strongly typed? And if you think going to an object oriented system is going to save face. I have news for you, what is operator overloading anyhow? It's polymorphism by the purest sense.. Why then does php make such a terrible error? It's like we are back using C, comparing a string pointer to a integer. If addressing in relative, a string pointing to address 0 is equivalent to the number 0. But perceptively, this is wrong because we don't have access (or are not supposed to have access) to pointers. ---- Server IP: 208.69.120.35 Probable Submitter: 69.241.171.211 ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.operators.comparison.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/76171 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/76171/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/76171/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/76171/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/76171/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/76171/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/76171/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/76171 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/76171 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php