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ID: 54547 Updated by: paj...@php.net Reported by: peter dot ritt at gmx dot net Summary: wrong equality of string numbers Status: Verified Type: Bug Package: Unknown/Other Function Operating System: linux PHP Version: 5.3.6 Assigned To: dmitry Block user comment: N Private report: N New Comment: @a at hotmail dot com This is not a support channel, if you need further support for the base ideas about the loosely type nature of PHP, please ask them on one the numerous channels. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2012-04-12 06:39:30] paj...@php.net @a at hotmail dot com This is not a support channel, if you need further support for the base ideas about the loosely type nature of PHP, please ask them on one the numerous channels. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2012-04-12 05:42:53] a at hotmail dot com @paj...@php.net How about *you* staying polite with your users by actually fixing your bugs? Can you imagine how much time is wasted worldwide as a consequence of your shortsighted "design" decisions? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2012-04-11 13:36:46] paj...@php.net @nik at naturalnet dot de Please stay polite with other developers. Please keep in mind that PHP is loosely typed, this is a root principle of PHP. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2012-04-11 13:12:14] nik at naturalnet dot de *Why* the heck is that implicit cast even done? Are PHP developers really _that_ absent-minded that they cannot write actual number literals when they want them (i.e. leave out the '')? I expect any programming language to use the data types I give it, not something it likes more! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2012-04-11 10:52:06] hholz...@php.net On "0xFF" == 255: since when do we actually consider hex in strings as numeric? And is this actually documented? The The "String conversion to numbers" section in the manual says: "Valid numeric data is an optional sign, followed by one or more digits (optionally containing a decimal point), followed by an optional exponent. The exponent is an 'e' or 'E' followed by one or more digits." ( http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.types.string.php#language.types.string.conversion ) By that description 0xsomething would *not* be considered as numeric in a string context ... ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The remainder of the comments for this report are too long. To view the rest of the comments, please view the bug report online at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=54547 -- Edit this bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=54547&edit=1
