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Re: switch with case 0 [message #182631 is a reply to message #182628]

Mon, 19 August 2013 10:30

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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		switch with case 0 By: Fiver on Sat, 17 August 2013 04:55
		Re: switch with case 0 By: J.O. Aho on Sat, 17 August 2013 06:35
		Re: switch with case 0 By: The Natural Philosoph on Sat, 17 August 2013 07:29
		Re: switch with case 0 By: Luuk on Sat, 17 August 2013 07:51
		Re: switch with case 0 By: Thomas Mlynarczyk on Sat, 17 August 2013 11:16
		Re: switch with case 0 By: Peter H. Coffin on Sat, 17 August 2013 15:56
		Re: switch with case 0 By: The Natural Philosoph on Sat, 17 August 2013 16:45
		Re: switch with case 0 By: Tim Streater on Sat, 17 August 2013 17:58
		Re: switch with case 0 By: The Natural Philosoph on Sat, 17 August 2013 18:39
		Re: switch with case 0 By: Thomas Mlynarczyk on Sat, 17 August 2013 19:36
		Re: switch with case 0 By: Thomas Mlynarczyk on Sat, 17 August 2013 20:14
		Re: switch with case 0 By: Norman Peelman on Sat, 17 August 2013 17:56
		Re: switch with case 0 By: Thomas Mlynarczyk on Sat, 17 August 2013 19:55
		Re: switch with case 0 By: The Natural Philosoph on Sat, 17 August 2013 20:04
		Re: switch with case 0 By: Thomas Mlynarczyk on Sat, 17 August 2013 20:32
		Re: switch with case 0 By: Richard Yates on Sat, 17 August 2013 22:20
		Re: switch with case 0 By: Fiver on Sat, 17 August 2013 20:37
		Re: switch with case 0 By: Norman Peelman on Sat, 17 August 2013 23:26
		Re: switch with case 0 By: The Natural Philosoph on Sun, 18 August 2013 11:54
		Re: switch with case 0 By: Norman Peelman on Sun, 18 August 2013 00:23
		Re: switch with case 0 By: Thomas Mlynarczyk on Sun, 18 August 2013 13:22
		Re: switch with case 0 By: Norman Peelman on Sun, 18 August 2013 15:20
		Re: switch with case 0 By: Thomas Mlynarczyk on Sun, 18 August 2013 16:28
		Re: switch with case 0 By: Norman Peelman on Sun, 18 August 2013 19:16
		Re: switch with case 0 By: Norman Peelman on Sun, 18 August 2013 22:04
		Re: switch with case 0 By: Thomas Mlynarczyk on Sun, 18 August 2013 22:17
		Re: switch with case 0 By: Thomas Mlynarczyk on Sun, 18 August 2013 22:13
		Re: switch with case 0 By: The Natural Philosoph on Sun, 18 August 2013 23:35
		Re: switch with case 0 By: Norman Peelman on Mon, 19 August 2013 10:30
		Re: switch with case 0 By: Norman Peelman on Mon, 19 August 2013 02:13
		Re: switch with case 0 By: Thomas Mlynarczyk on Mon, 19 August 2013 17:55
		Re: switch with case 0 By: Thomas 'PointedEars' on Mon, 19 August 2013 08:18
		Re: switch with case 0 By: Thomas Mlynarczyk on Mon, 19 August 2013 17:39
		Re: switch with case 0 By: Fiver on Sat, 17 August 2013 14:15
		Re: switch with case 0 By: Norman Peelman on Sat, 17 August 2013 17:28

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