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Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2003 06:42:37 -0700
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Make switch/case to type sensitive comparison in PHP 5?
From: joey@joeysmith.com (Joey Smith)

See also bug 21990.

http://bugs.php.net/lbugs.php?id=21990

On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 06:07:02AM -0700, Joey Smith wrote:
> I was reminded tonight of the following 'feature' of switch:
> 
> $a = 0;
> switch($a) {
> 	case 'somestring': echo 'Bug?'; break;
> 	case 0: echo 'Not a bug'; break;
> }
> 
> This will echo 'Bug?' with PHP 4. It seems more logical to have switch
> comparing with T_IS_IDENTICAL than with T_IS_EQUAL. Is this something that
> might be changed as we move to PHP 5.0?
> 
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