Re: [PHP4BETA] A strict equality operator
| From: | apis | Date: | Mon, 26 Jul 1999 01:39:15 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: [PHP4BETA] A strict equality operator | ||
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o How about:
=|=
Things are really equal on both sides of the fence!
Apis
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On Mon, 26 Jul 1999, Zeev Suraski wrote:
> At 00:07 26/07/99 , 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.
>
> Perhaps something along the lines of =?=, ? being some good character to
> fit in there.
> =~=
> =x= (seems to suggest an X over the equality, which appears
> not-equal)
> =:=
*snip*
>
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