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Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2012 18:46:04 +0800
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Changing the default value of "true" for CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST
From: aharvey@php.net (Adam Harvey)

On 25 October 2012 18:38, Sebastian Krebs <krebs.seb@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2012/10/25 crankypuss <fullmoon@newsguy.com>
>> Booleans ought to be 1 and 0.  Casting a boolean to 2 is just wrong, a way
>> to fix badly written code a few people have written and in so doing risk
>> the breakage of far more code that is correct.
>
>
> Thats not completely true. Boolean 'false' is equal to 0 and Boolean 'true'
> is something different than 0, that _may_ be 1 (and in most cases is), but
> it's not limited too. Just said.

In general that's true, but the PHP manual explicitly documents the
result of a boolean to integer conversion as 0 and 1:
http://au1.php.net/types.integer

Adam