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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Stricter implicit boolean coercions
From: a.leathley@gmx.net (Andreas Leathley)

On 26.04.22 12:02, Mark Randall wrote:
> On 26/04/2022 10:54, Andreas Leathley wrote:
>> Any non-empty string (except "0") is converted to true and any non-zero
>> integer or float is converted to true.
>
> If we could get rid of "0" being false, that alone would be a huge
> benefit for the language in the long run.
>
> I know why it exists, but I don't think it should. In fact it never
> should have existed in the first place.
>
For me, highlighting all the places where a possibly unintended
conversion to true is happening would make "0" a lot less bad. "0.0"
being silently true while "0" and 0.0 is false seems a bit awkward.