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What's the equivalent of === for < and > in PHP?

• chx 8y ago
  Use < and > for numbers and strcmp for strings. A strict type > would be very weird because besides returning TRUE and FALSE it'd need to throw a TypeError, I guess?
  • vesak 8y ago
    >A strict type > would be very weird because besides returning TRUE and FALSE it'd need to throw a TypeError, I guess? Yes, which would make it behave exactly like probably every language with strong runtime typechecks. Very weird indeed. It's obviously much more preferable that the code sometimes does the wrong thing without warning. And of course with static typing, it would be extremely weird since the code wouldn't even pass the compiler!
    • dpcx 8y ago
      I don't think the snark in this response is super helpful; a simple "Yes, throw a TypeError when the types are incorrect" would have sufficed.
      • vesak 8y ago
        I wasn't trying to be helpful. I was trying to discourage stupidity ("very weird") by ridiculing it.
      • vesak 8y ago
        Congratulations for being the last straw. I'm getting out of this site for good.