Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:65594 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 26688 invoked from network); 3 Feb 2013 22:38:23 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 3 Feb 2013 22:38:23 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=derick@php.net; sender-id=unknown Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=derick@php.net; spf=unknown; sender-id=unknown Received-SPF: unknown (pb1.pair.com: domain php.net does not designate 82.113.146.227 as permitted sender) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: derick@php.net X-Host-Fingerprint: 82.113.146.227 xdebug.org Linux 2.6 Received: from [82.113.146.227] ([82.113.146.227:55794] helo=xdebug.org) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 1C/C5-22879-DD6EE015 for ; Sun, 03 Feb 2013 17:38:22 -0500 Received: from localhost (xdebug.org [127.0.0.1]) by xdebug.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1FEBBDE13D; Sun, 3 Feb 2013 22:38:17 +0000 (GMT) Date: Sun, 3 Feb 2013 17:38:16 -0500 (EST) X-X-Sender: derick@whisky.home.derickrethans.nl To: Martin Jansen cc: internals@lists.php.net In-Reply-To: <510EA95F.40503@divbyzero.net> Message-ID: References: <510EA95F.40503@divbyzero.net> User-Agent: Alpine 2.02 (DEB 1266 2009-07-14) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] FILTER_VALIDATE_INT and +0/-0 From: derick@php.net (Derick Rethans) On Sun, 3 Feb 2013, Martin Jansen wrote: > Back in December I submitted a pull request to make FILTER_VALIDATE_INT > accept +0/-0. That request was merged into php-src: > > https://github.com/php/php-src/pull/248 > > The other day I then stumbled upon a note on > http://www.php.net/manual/en/filter.filters.validate.php saying "Numbers > +0 and -0 are not valid integers but validate as floats.", which makes > me wonder if the previous behavior (rejecting +0/-0) was on purpose > rather than by mistake? +0 and -0 don't make sense for integers, where there is only 0. Allowing only 0 was on purpose. Derick