min/max oddities

leon just reported a bug in min() and max() (PHP 3 and PHP 4 behave different). the problem is even "bigger": <? var_dump(min(5,1,10, "hello")); var_dump(min(array(5,1,10, "hello"))); var_dump(max(1,10, "hello")); var_dump(max(array(1,10, "hello"))); ?> produces: Content-Type: text/html string(5) "hello" int(1) int(10) string(5) "hello" that's because array_data_compare() (in basic_functions) is produces different results from is_smaller_function() (libzend) array_data_compare is the PHP 3 behaviour! so, what's the way to go: 1) use is_smaller_function() in array_data_compare() 2) create and array_data_compare_pval() and use that for min and max. way 2 would be 100% downward compatible but 1 would be the "right way" as is_smaller_function() is the function that the core language uses! tc