I don't know. It's one of those cases where fixing it to do the "right" thing would potentially break a lot of software depending on this sort of erroneous behavior. Part of me wants to say "I hope so" and part of me is kinda terrified at what might happen if they did. Shouldn't be difficult to fix, but it would definitely take some time.
Someone should know if there's a decent linter that would pick this up to make it easier to fix, I would imagine!
> I did not think this was possible as there is no type coercion and not well documented.
I think when applying the equality operator (==) in lieu of the identity operator (===) between strings PHP uses heuristics to decide what to do. If it looks like a number, it coerces it into an int or a float. As an example:
php > var_dump('1e12' == 1e12);
bool(true)
As ridiculous as I think it is, I also take the approach that it's just what PHP does. Weird, maybe a bit eccentric, probably a contributor to difficult-to-find bugs, but it's just something we have to keep in mind. Perhaps I'm feeling charitable because it's Thanksgiving!
I don't know. It's one of those cases where fixing it to do the "right" thing would potentially break a lot of software depending on this sort of erroneous behavior. Part of me wants to say "I hope so" and part of me is kinda terrified at what might happen if they did. Shouldn't be difficult to fix, but it would definitely take some time.
Someone should know if there's a decent linter that would pick this up to make it easier to fix, I would imagine!
> I did not think this was possible as there is no type coercion and not well documented.
I think when applying the equality operator (==) in lieu of the identity operator (===) between strings PHP uses heuristics to decide what to do. If it looks like a number, it coerces it into an int or a float. As an example:
As ridiculous as I think it is, I also take the approach that it's just what PHP does. Weird, maybe a bit eccentric, probably a contributor to difficult-to-find bugs, but it's just something we have to keep in mind. Perhaps I'm feeling charitable because it's Thanksgiving!