Re: [PHP-DEV] $string != $array should throw a warning! From: Thies C. Arntzen (thies <email protected>)
Date: 12/28/99

On Tue, 28 Dec 1999, Andi Gutmans wrote:

> Yeah they should be bool in my opinion too. How about entering it in
> bugs.php.net/version4 so that we remember to fix it.

andi,
the fix is too easy to put it in bugdb, question is how do we want to fix
it:

a) spit a warning in compare-function & still return var_reset()?
b) decide if array > string or vice versa

just have a quick look at compare_function and you'll see what i mean.

as the current behaviour is undefined i'd go for b) and declare "Array >
string" (that was choosen by random), 'cause i don't like the idea of an
basic operator to spit a warning.

comments?
tc

>
> Andi
>
>
> On Tue, 28 Dec 1999, Thies C. Arntzen wrote:
>
> > <?
> > error_reporting(-1);
> > $a = array();
> > $b = "hallo";
> >
> > var_dump($a != $b);
> > var_dump($a == $b);
> > var_dump($a === $b);
> > ?>
> >
> > outputs:
> > X-Powered-By: PHP/4.0b4-dev
> > Content-Type: text/html
> >
> > string(0) ""
> > string(0) ""
> > bool(false)
> >
> > i really think this *should* output:
> >
> > bool(true);
> > bool(false);
> > bool(false);
> >
> > or spit a warining in case 1 & 2!
> >
> > question is:
> > - do we want the warning? or
> > - can we decide on a string being bigger or smaller than an object/array
> > (and implement that in compare_function())
> >
> >
> > tc
> >
> >
> >
>
>

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