Hi!

Stanislav Malyshev wrote:

> Ahh, I see. I think it's the mistake in the RFC. [...]

Then it is probably best to fix the RFC. :)

> I'm not a big fan of throwing too many notices. They are usually not
> very helpful an din this case it would be not easy to distinguish
> between intentional and unintentional use.

<snip>

> $a > $b being false is an artifact of how ">" works in the engine - $a >
> $b is essentially ($b < $a). Since in this case both $a > $b and $b >
> $a, the result of ($b < $a) is false. That's what you get when you
> compare non-well-ordered things...

I get your point.  I suggest to amend the documentation[1] to make it
clear that comparing non-well-ordered values results in undefined
behavior (it might be best to treat the return value 1 in this case as
implementation specific).

[1] <http://php.net/manual/en/language.operators.comparison.php>

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Christoph M. Becker

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