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Re: using same variable twice on same page [message #171332 is a reply to message #171320] Thu, 30 December 2010 13:05 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
Jerry Stuckle is currently offline  Jerry Stuckle
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On 12/30/2010 5:13 AM, Tim Streater wrote:
> In article <ifhj8t$1hd$2(at)news(dot)albasani(dot)net>,
> The Natural Philosopher <tnp(at)invalid(dot)invalid> wrote:
>
>> August Karlstrom wrote:
>>> On 2010-12-29 11:42, Derek Turner wrote:
>>>> On Tue, 28 Dec 2010 22:07:55 -0700, richard wrote:
>>>>
>>>> > <?php if ($year="1961")
>>>>
>>>> This simply sets $year to "1961" and will always return 'true'
>>>> ...which is more or less a flaw in the language design copied from C.
>>
>> Which is more or less a feature of clarity,....not a flaw.
>>
>> BASIC is the flawed language, allowing '=' to mean SET TO and EQUALS
>> according to ambiguous context
>>
>> Sadly PHP copied BASICS lack of explicit typing as well.
>
> I don't want explicit typing. Let the language work for you.
>

Explicit typing has many advantages - like having fewer bugs because you
can't do something stupid like pass a string where you expect an
integer. It's a big reason why you won't see large programs written in
untyped languages.

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