note 43093 deleted from types.comparisons by nlopess

Note Submitter: darkside@ambientshadow.NOSPAM.com ---- Oh, the insanity... "If the string starts with valid numeric data, this will be the value used." If this is true, then why the following: (0 == "info") is FALSE; reason given, " 'inf' means infinity" (0 == "inf") is TRUE; shouldn't it be false if it's comparing infinity to zero? (0 == "infinity") is TRUE; what gives? (0 == "infinita") is FALSE; my head asplode! The "starts with valid numeric data" appears to apply to numbers... (0 == "2") is FALSE, obviously (0 == "2d") is FALSE (0 == "p2p") is TRUE ... but textual representations don't seem to count... (0 == "two") is TRUE So, what's with "inf" and "infinity"? php v 4.3.2