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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Strict operators directive
From: cschneid@cschneid.com (Christian Schneider)

Am 26.06.2019 um 11:09 schrieb Benjamin Morel =
<benjamin.morel@gmail.com>:
>=20
>>   "120" > "99.9"; // TypeError
>> Anything else will bring confusion.
>=20
> Not sure about this, you can do it the JS way: if both operands are
> strings, then it behaves like strcmp():
>=20
> "23" > "4"; // false
> "23" > "221"; // true
>=20
> I'm not saying that we should do it, but this would not be confusing =
to me
> at all.

With the proposed change both
	"23" > "4" =3D=3D=3D true	# Current behaviour
and
	"23" > "4" =3D=3D=3D false	# New strict behaviour
could be the case depending on a declaration somewhere else in the =
source code.

That's the confusion Claude and I were talking about: You cannot be sure =
what a very simple line of code does.

- Chris