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Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2012 12:40:54 -0700
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To: Felipe Pena <felipensp@gmail.com>
Cc: Pierre Joye <pierre.php@gmail.com>, 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: kris.craig@gmail.com (Kris Craig)

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On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 4:29 AM, Felipe Pena <felipensp@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>
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> Felipe Pena
>
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>
IMHO since it represents a language change (albeit a minor one) I agree
with Pierre that an RFC wouldn't hurt.  If nothing else it's just a good
habit to get into I think.

--Kris

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