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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] bitwise operations and Unicode strings
From: antony@zend.com (Antony Dovgal)

On 29.05.2007 19:30, Richard Quadling wrote:
> As PHP is loosely typed, "1"==1 is fine.

Right, but that's not true for bitwise operators.

Try this:
<?php
$a = 111; 
$a |= 50; 
var_dump($a);
?> 

and this
<?php
$a = "111"; 
$a |= "50"; 
var_dump($a);
?>

OR is applied to _characters_ of the string.
Hence I can see no reason to support it at all.

> Is it that with Unicode, this looseness is gone?

Nope.

-- 
Wbr, 
Antony Dovgal