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

> On 18 Aug, 2014, at 10:47 pm, Johannes Schlüter <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> On Mon, 2014-08-18 at 14:44 +0200, Marc Bennewitz wrote:
>> The question isn't "What's wrong with ===, strcmp()?" but "What's wrong 
>> with ==, <, >?".
>> 
>> We have a standard way to compare two operands but currently we do some 
>> magic things to solve something that don't need to be solved.
> 
> Still it is a key property of the language which we can't simply change.
> Also mind this: All input data are strings and some databases also
> return data as string. So code like
> 
>   if ($_GET['id'] > 0)
> or
>   if ($db->fetchRow()[0] == 12)
> 
> which is common will break.

Those two cases will actually not be affected, it's strictly string<=>string comparisons that's being discussed here. 

> Maybe using different sets of operators
> would have been better, but that should have happened 20 years ago not
> now.
> 
> Also mind consistency: If you change this you probably also have to
> change other places where implicit conversion happens, i.e. array keys. 
> 
> In the end you get a complete new incompatible language and can throw
> away most libraries and so on. 
> 
> So in case you have a Tardis, DeLorean with Flux Capacitor or any other
> time machine I'm happy to support you in the past, but not this late.
> 
> johannes
> 
> 
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