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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] '9223372036854775807' == '9223372036854775808'
From: mjpelmear@gmail.com (Matt Pelmear)

On 04/13/2012 09:12 AM, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote:
> On 04/13/2012 09:09 AM, Stas Malyshev wrote:
>> However I think it would make sense not to use this conversion in string
>> comparisons when we know it's lossy - it seems to be outside of the use
>> case for such comparisons and it seems apparent by now that it is hard
>> for people to understand why it works this way.
> Yup, I agree, if the type juggling loses data we should skip the juggle
> and do a direct comparison which I think is what Gustavo's patch does.
> If people explicitly cast things then the cast, even if it is lossy,
> should happen.
>
> -Rasmus
>

Sadly when I proposed this many months ago my post was ignored. :-(
Just chiming in to say +1 for this type of operation. This problem was 
extremely frustrating and took a while to figure out exactly what was 
going on, as I had wrongly assumed casting to string at the comparison 
would cause a strcmp.

-Matt