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Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2003 09:57:42 -0800
To: Joey Smith <joey@joeysmith.com>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Make switch/case to type sensitive comparison in
  PHP 5?
From: zeev@zend.com (Zeev Suraski)
References: <20030324130642.GA5593@joeysmith.com>

It's not a 'feature', it's a feature.  It's not likely to change, dynamic 
type conversion is one of the foundations of PHP.

Zeev

At 05:07 24/03/2003, 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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