Re: [PHP4BETA] propose for bool -> string conversion:
| From: | bourbon at netvision dot net dot il | Date: | Fri, 02 Jul 1999 13:24:37 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: [PHP4BETA] propose for bool -> string conversion: | ||
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On Fri, 2 Jul 1999, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote:
> > Semantically nothing changed, both "0" and "" are false. I don't
> > feel
> > strongly about this, but basically, anybody relying on false being "" and
> > not "0" or 0, is writing bogus code.
>
> Unfortunately the only way to determine whether some functions return a
> valid result or not is to check whether they return 0 or false. strpos()
> being one of them.
So they're buggy functions. 0 is just as much as false as "" or "0" are.
Zeev
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