Re: [PHP4BETA] propose for bool -> string conversion:

On Fri, 2 Jul 1999, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: > > So they're buggy functions. 0 is just as much as false as "" or > > "0" are. > > Whether that is true or not is not really the point. They are out there > and people are using them. And since our strings are indexed starting > from 0, a function that returns the string index of a character at the > first position in a string would logically return 0. Well, changing this behavior isn't difficult, as Thies pointed out. Nonetheless, when these functions were written, it was wrong for them to assume 0 is not the same as false, because by the language definition, it is. It shouldn't have even been an option to use 0 and false as two different return values. Zeev -- ----------------------------------------------------- Zeev Suraski <zeev@zend.com> For a PGP public key, finger bourbon@netvision.net.il