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Re: switch with case 0 [message #182631 is a reply to message #182628] Mon, 19 August 2013 10:30 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
Norman Peelman is currently offline  Norman Peelman
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On 08/18/2013 07:35 PM, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
> On 18/08/13 23:13, Thomas Mlynarczyk wrote:
>> No. First it did its weird comparison and then it passed the
>> resulting boolean to strlen() and strlen() didn't complain, converted
>> the boolean to string, did its stuff, returned an integer which got
>> converted to a boolean to evaluate the if condition. If you ever make
>> a mistake and want to hide it -- put it in a PHP script, it'll be safe
>> there ;-)
>>
>
> At least you only have ONE implementation of PHP to contend with.
>
> When I did similar in Javascript it took me TWO BLOODY DAYS to work out
> why exactly the same code worked in Firefox and not in IE6.
>
> And it was EXACTLY the same issue. comparing what I ASSUMED were
> numbers, but they got converted to strings by IE6,
>
> But not by firefox.
>
> It took me one and a half days to pin the thing down, and half a day to
> find a construct that actually did the same thing in both browsers.
>
> sheesh.
>
> I even looked up the spec. It didn't cover the case. casting is
> explicitly defined in ASSIGNMENTS, but not in COMPARISONS.
>
>

That's part of the problem (that I just recently realized)... there
are no STRING *comparators* in PHP, just STRING *functions*.

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Norman
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