Re: AW: [PHP] PHP is Zero

I agree with you that this is a confusing and error-prone behavior, but I
also agree with Richard Gray, I wouldn't try to change this for the same
reason that a "1+1=3" shouldn't be touched if it's "correct" on a huge
amount of existing codebases...



On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 8:49 AM, BUSCHKE Daniel <
[email protected]> wrote:

> To be more technical:
>
> If intval('8315e839da08e2a7afe6dd12ec58245d') would return NULL instead of
> 8315 then PHP would be still weak-typed and the developer could know that
> the conversion failed. Good idea? Of course NULL should be transparent in
> operations like +. So 0 + NULL should be still 0.
>
> Regards
> Daniel
>
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: BUSCHKE Daniel
> Gesendet: Donnerstag, 13. Juni 2013 13:28
> An: 'Pete Ford'; [email protected]
> Betreff: AW: AW: [PHP] PHP is Zero
>
> Hi,
>
> > It gives up when it finds a non-numeric character (as the documentation
> would tell you)
>
> Why is PHP doing that? I know it works as designed and I know it is
> documented like this but that does not mean that it is a good feature, does
> it? So lets talk about the question: Is that behaviour awaited by PHP
> software developers? Is that really the way PHP should work here? May we
> should change that?!
>
> BTW: I talked to some collegues and friends since my first post. They all
> guessed that "'PHP' == 0" is false within a few seconds. I think the
> weak-typed-PHP is a little to weak at this point.
>
> Regards
> Daniel
>
>
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