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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] bug 54547
From: kazuo@o-ishi.jp (OISHI Kazuo)

>> I know this was discussed a number of times here, but just to bring it
>> to a conclusion - I intend to apply patch in the bug report - which
>> removes conversion for strings that do not convert to integers - to 5.4.
>> If anybody sees anything that breaks because of this please tell.
>
> "12345678901234567890" == "12345678901234567890.0"
>
> used to be true, is now false ... i'd still say that's ok though as
> it is a case of "never compare floats for equality" here, now that
> the decimal clearly says that at least the right side is supposed
> to be float, not integer ...

In addition to == operator, >, <, >=, and <= operators are influenced.

And, hexdecimal format for big number is now case-sensitive.

http://www.mail-archive.com/internals@lists.php.net/msg58789.html

-- 
OISHI Kazuo