Re: [PHP4BETA] A strict equality operator

x &= y; Is the same as x = x & y; So, it's taken. Jeff ----- Original Message ----- From: Jon Griffin <jong@e88.org> To: Ariel <ars@ziplink.net>; Stig Bakken <ssb@fast.no> Cc: Jeffrey Galbraith <xendra@xendra.com>; <php4beta@lists.php.net> Sent: Sunday, July 25, 1999 4:13 PM Subject: Re: [PHP4BETA] A strict equality operator > I agree, I hate text operators (i.e. eq) and this is not THAT HARD to > remember. > My vote &=, just ingrain it in your head and in three minutes you remember! > > At 06:07 PM 7/25/99 -0400, Ariel wrote: > > > >It's not any harder to remember then === or harder to understand, but a > >lot better from a debugging point of view since you're much less likely to > >confuse it with == (=$ might be better). I'm not hooked on the symbol, I > >just don't like === there are already a lot of people who think == and = > >were a mistake for c, and that they should have done = and := instead, so > >why make it worse (ok so == works well with && vs & and || vs |, but it > >still causes a lot of mistakes for programmers). How about x= it stands > >for exactly equal. > > > > -Ariel > > > > > >-- > >PHP 4 Beta > > > > > > > Thanks, > Jon Griffin > jong@e88.org > > Check out: > <http://www.salsablanca.com> > <http://www.jongriffin.com> > > >