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Re: switch with case 0

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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*.

-- 
Norman
Registered Linux user #461062
-Have you been to www.php.net yet?-

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switch with case 0 Fiver <numeralfive@gmail.com> - 2013-08-17 06:55 +0200
  Re: switch with case 0 "J.O. Aho" <user@example.net> - 2013-08-17 08:35 +0200
    Re: switch with case 0 The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2013-08-17 08:29 +0100
    Re: switch with case 0 Luuk <luuk@invalid.lan> - 2013-08-17 09:51 +0200
    Re: switch with case 0 Thomas Mlynarczyk <thomas@mlynarczyk-webdesign.de> - 2013-08-17 13:16 +0200
      Re: switch with case 0 "Peter H. Coffin" <hellsop@ninehells.com> - 2013-08-17 10:56 -0500
        Re: switch with case 0 The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2013-08-17 17:45 +0100
          Re: switch with case 0 Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2013-08-17 18:58 +0100
            Re: switch with case 0 The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2013-08-17 19:39 +0100
              Re: switch with case 0 Thomas Mlynarczyk <thomas@mlynarczyk-webdesign.de> - 2013-08-17 21:36 +0200
        Re: switch with case 0 Thomas Mlynarczyk <thomas@mlynarczyk-webdesign.de> - 2013-08-17 22:14 +0200
      Re: switch with case 0 Norman Peelman <npeelman@cfl.rr.com> - 2013-08-17 13:56 -0400
        Re: switch with case 0 Thomas Mlynarczyk <thomas@mlynarczyk-webdesign.de> - 2013-08-17 21:55 +0200
          Re: switch with case 0 The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2013-08-17 21:04 +0100
            Re: switch with case 0 Thomas Mlynarczyk <thomas@mlynarczyk-webdesign.de> - 2013-08-17 22:32 +0200
              Re: switch with case 0 Richard Yates <richard@yatesguitar.com> - 2013-08-17 15:20 -0700
            Re: switch with case 0 Fiver <numeralfive@gmail.com> - 2013-08-17 22:37 +0200
              Re: switch with case 0 Norman Peelman <npeelman@cfl.rr.com> - 2013-08-17 19:26 -0400
              Re: switch with case 0 The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2013-08-18 12:54 +0100
          Re: switch with case 0 Norman Peelman <npeelman@cfl.rr.com> - 2013-08-17 20:23 -0400
            Re: switch with case 0 Thomas Mlynarczyk <thomas@mlynarczyk-webdesign.de> - 2013-08-18 15:22 +0200
              Re: switch with case 0 Norman Peelman <npeelman@cfl.rr.com> - 2013-08-18 11:20 -0400
                Re: switch with case 0 Thomas Mlynarczyk <thomas@mlynarczyk-webdesign.de> - 2013-08-18 18:28 +0200
                Re: switch with case 0 Norman Peelman <npeelman@cfl.rr.com> - 2013-08-18 15:16 -0400
                Re: switch with case 0 Norman Peelman <npeelman@cfl.rr.com> - 2013-08-18 18:04 -0400
                Re: switch with case 0 Thomas Mlynarczyk <thomas@mlynarczyk-webdesign.de> - 2013-08-19 00:17 +0200
                Re: switch with case 0 Thomas Mlynarczyk <thomas@mlynarczyk-webdesign.de> - 2013-08-19 00:13 +0200
                Re: switch with case 0 The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2013-08-19 00:35 +0100
                Re: switch with case 0 Norman Peelman <npeelman@cfl.rr.com> - 2013-08-19 06:30 -0400
                Re: switch with case 0 Norman Peelman <npeelman@cfl.rr.com> - 2013-08-18 22:13 -0400
                Re: switch with case 0 Thomas Mlynarczyk <thomas@mlynarczyk-webdesign.de> - 2013-08-19 19:55 +0200
          Re: switch with case 0 Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2013-08-19 10:18 +0200
            Re: switch with case 0 Thomas Mlynarczyk <thomas@mlynarczyk-webdesign.de> - 2013-08-19 19:39 +0200
  Re: switch with case 0 Fiver <numeralfive@gmail.com> - 2013-08-17 16:15 +0200
  Re: switch with case 0 Norman Peelman <npeelman@cfl.rr.com> - 2013-08-17 13:28 -0400

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