Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Binary String Comparison

[email protected] (Adrian Guenter)
Newsgroups php.internals
Message-ID <CAJ5u6yi4v93nQV25Z-Ei7AtD3_4yQSyd2fnQSk-7G8AqHnz7UA@mail.gmail.com>
Type juggling is a (major) feature of PHP which would effectively be
neutered by this change. As Sara mentioned we already have tools to achieve
binary and string comparison.
On Aug 17, 2014 4:19 PM, "Sara Golemon" <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Sun, Aug 17, 2014 at 12:58 PM, Marc Bennewitz <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I've created a draft RFC and patch to change the behavior of non-strict
> > string to string comparison to be binary safe (as the strict comparison
> > operator does):
> >
> >      https://wiki.php.net/rfc/binary_string_comparison
> >
> If I understand your goal correctly, you seem to want to change a very
> fundamental (and ancient) behavior of the language even though
> mechanisms already exist to do what you describe as the "changed
> behavior".
>
> What exactly is wrong with ===, strcmp(), etc..?
>
> -Sara
>
> --
> PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List
> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
>
>
lmpx.com only provides a reader for public news (NNTP) servers. It is not affiliated with the servers or forums shown here and is not responsible for the content of articles, which is written by their respective authors.