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		Zak on May 27, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: These are things in PHP which make me sad I think the reason people object to this behavior, even when they do understand it is that it makes the obvious default (==) dangerous. It's especially dangerous in the hands of the sort of non-experts for whom it's intended to make life easier.

wvenable on May 27, 2011 [–]

== really isn't that dangerous unless you use it dangerously. Comparing non-numeric strings to numbers is already odd.

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