Re: Comparison style

There is another reason as well. type casting is done right to left. This will always ensure that the variables type is compared to "", which will convert to 0 if $content is a number. Not sure if this was intentional or not, but it is true. Brian Moon ---------------------------------------------------------------------- dealnews.com, Inc. Makers of dealnews, dealmac http://dealnews.com/ | http://dealmac.com/ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jon Parise" <jon@csh.rit.edu> To: <pear-dev@lists.php.net>; <php-dev@lists.php.net> Sent: Monday, May 14, 2001 9:31 PM Subject: [PEAR-DEV] Comparison style > I was just perusing some of the PEAR code, and a certain > condition caught my eye: > > if ("" == $content) > > My habit has always been to write that sort of condition using > the style: > > if ($content == "") > > (leaving the unknown value on the left side of the comparison > operator) > > Is one of these styles preferable to the other, either always or > in certain instances? > > -- > Jon Parise (jon@csh.rit.edu) . Rochester Inst. of Technology > http://www.csh.rit.edu/~jon/ : Computer Science House Member > > -- > PEAR Development Mailing List (http://pear.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: pear-dev-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: pear-dev-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net > > >