-----Original Message-----
From: Zeev Suraski [mailto:zeev@zend.com]
Sent: 26 March 2003 01:47
To: Ford, Mike [LSS]At 03:27 25/03/2003, Ford, Mike [LSS] wrote:
I'd love to see, say, case_identical for requesting an ===
comparison, with
case continuing as before to do an == comparison.I'd really not love to see it :) Use an if-else chain of ===
comparisons
instead if that's what you really need.
Oh, well, fair enough -- I can live with that, although I think it's a less
elegant way of programming it. Still, nothing ventured nothing gained...!
;)
Cheers!
Mike
Mike Ford, Electronic Information Services Adviser,
Learning Support Services, Learning & Information Services,
JG125, James Graham Building, Leeds Metropolitan University,
Beckett Park, LEEDS, LS6 3QS, United Kingdom
Email: m.ford@lmu.ac.uk
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I'd really not love to see it :) Use an if-else chain of ===
comparisons
instead if that's what you really need.Oh, well, fair enough -- I can live with that, although I think it's a less
elegant way of programming it. Still, nothing ventured nothing gained...!
;)
Mike, changing this would break all sorts of stuff, and I think it would
confuse a lot of people. If HTML form variables were somehow typed by the
browsers, then it might make sense, but people are going to write code
like:
switch($input) {
case 1:
...
case 2:
...
case 3:
...
}
Forcing people to worry about the type on user input goes against the
basic nature of PHP.
-Rasmus