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Baby, Don't You Loose Your Type On Me

Submitted by greg.harvey on Fri, 29/08/2008 - 17:30

Many programmers from beyond the realm of PHP, deep in the black country where the dragons reside, whinge like an Australian swim-coach about PHP's loose variable typing. Many PHP developers either don't know what this means or don't care. I didn't much care, until recently, where I got a practical lesson in why loose typing can, on ocassion, really suck.

Here are some interesting effects of PHP's loose typing:

<?php
$var1 = 1;
$var2 = '1';
print 'Result: '.($var1 == $var2);
?>

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