The phpdoc howto does tell us to document float 
versus double but:

  $i = 4.43;
  print gettype($i); // double

Seems strange, this should be mentioned somewhere.  
Perhaps on language.types.float.  I assume it 
(double) remains for historical/BC reasons in 
gettype().

Regards,
Philip Olson



On Wed, 29 May 2002, Friedhelm Betz wrote:

> betz          Wed May 29 05:53:40 2002 EDT
> 
>   Modified files:              
>     /phpdoc/en/language       constants.xml 
>   Log:
>   minor correction: double is out :-)
>   
> Index: phpdoc/en/language/constants.xml
> diff -u phpdoc/en/language/constants.xml:1.24 phpdoc/en/language/constants.xml:1.25
> --- phpdoc/en/language/constants.xml:1.24     Mon Mar 11 19:57:46 2002
> +++ phpdoc/en/language/constants.xml  Wed May 29 05:53:40 2002
> @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
>  <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
> -<!-- $Revision: 1.24 $ -->
> +<!-- $Revision: 1.25 $ -->
>   <chapter id="language.constants">
>    <title>Constants</title>
>  
> @@ -43,7 +43,7 @@
>     </simpara>
>     <simpara>
>      Only scalar data (<type>boolean</type>, <type>integer</type>, 
> -    <type>double</type> and <type>string</type>) can be contained 
> +    <type>float</type> and <type>string</type>) can be contained 
>      in constants.
>     </simpara>
>     <simpara>
> 
> 

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