Re: [PHP-DEV] Boolean weirdness? From: Andrei Zmievski (andrei <email protected>)
Date: 05/17/01

On Thu, 17 May 2001, Sebastian Bergmann wrote:
> Hey there,
>
> I was just bitten by a - IMHO - weirdness with boolean values:
>
> <?php
> $foo = -1;
> if ($foo) { print "bar"; }
> ?>
>
> The code above print 'bar'. I would expect if($x) t return true if $x
> is an integer and greater that zero. This is what my intuition tells me
> :)

Anything that's not 0 is true.

-Andrei

"Try to spend the next 30 seconds not thinking
 about a blue-eyed polar bear." -Feodor Dostoevsky 

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