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Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2012 08:29:31 -0300
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To: Pierre Joye <pierre.php@gmail.com>
Cc: Derick Rethans <derick@php.net>, David Soria Parra <dsp@php.net>, internals@lists.php.net
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] boolval() again
From: felipensp@gmail.com (Felipe Pena)

Hi,

2012/6/6 Pierre Joye <pierre.php@gmail.com>:
> hi,
>
> Pull it but I would still do a RFC to clearly document it (exact
> behaviors), which could be then used by the doc team and to implement
> tests.
>
> On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 11:51 AM, Derick Rethans <derick@php.net> wrote:
>> David Soria Parra <dsp@php.net> wrote:
>>
>>> Going through the 26 open pull requests (please let us work on getting
>>> that number down), I stumbled over
>>> https://github.com/php/php-src/pull/60.
>>>
>>> This was already proposed on the mailinglits, but the thread died fast
>>> without
>>> a satisfying answer on whether to add a function boolval() or not.
>>>
>>> Personally I would like to see the function in. Having a complete set
>>> of XYZval() functions is a good reason for me to add that function.
>>> The
>>> implementation is simple and straight forward and easy to maintain.
>>>
>>> Do we need an RFC for that simple pull request or can we just go ahead
>>> and pull it?
>> Pull it.
>>
>> Derick
>>
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>
>

Pull it! About the RFC, I think isn't necessary as the behavior is
obvious, i.e. it behaves like a cast to bool.

-- 
Regards,
Felipe Pena