-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: RIPEMD160 Richard Lynch wrote: > On Thu, May 11, 2006 2:30 pm, Jasper Bryant-Greene wrote: >> From a pure computer science point of view, the above makes complete >> sense. Null means unknown value, so nothing is equal to it, not even >> another null (because you don't know if the other null's *unknown* >> value >> is equal to this null's *unknown* value). is_null() would make more >> sense here. > > With all due respect to the Mathematical theory behind that, it's just > asinine in a programming language I have to use every day. > > Sorry.
To be honest, I'd rather be able to compare nulls using equality in PHP too. That kind of thing is exactly why I like PHP. I was just pointing out the (probable) reasons behind the change - it's exactly the same as having to use 'a IS NULL' instead of 'a = NULL' in MySQL etc. Jasper -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (MingW32) iD8DBQFEY6iNFfAeHhDzT4gRA0ArAKCRzAtRqfuscf4Y5B4KTOvCFg6HxwCg8LdJ qxquURkKi8dIWgQvCm+LwP0= =UeTH -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
