Rasmus Lerdorf wrote:
Derick Rethans wrote:
On Tue, 15 Nov 2005, Andrei Zmievski wrote:
Perhaps, but I would maintain that passing "123abc" and having it
interpreted
as 123 is still wrong.
Yeah, I lean that way too, although trailing whitespace should be
supported IMO.
I don't like having two different ways to cast things and I think we
would break a lot of stuff if (int)"123abc" no longer resulted in 123.
neither do I - and I garantee it will make PHP less attractive as a tool
especially
to the legions of 'noobs' that account for the popularity of php. (I throw the
same argument at the changes made to array_merge() with regard to no longer
accepting
non-array values)
I would suggest that psychologically any BC breakage and inconsitency introduced
in the short to medium term hits twice as hard because of the reference related
fixes/breaks/changes (which in itself is already a big hurdle for lots of
developers
and ISPs) - my point being that for the sake of the future wellbeing of the
community
someone should be stepping on the "Purism Brake" a little harder.
the pragmatic ideal embodied in php since its conception is being somewhat
eroded imho,
and I don't see the point in creating a 'perfect' tool if only 10 people are
capable of
and want to use it.
rgds,
Jochem
-Rasmus
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