On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 7:11 PM, Simon Schick
<[email protected]>wrote:
> Hi, Adam
>
> I totally agree that type-hinting should not cover what the programmer
> should do for validating the given input ...
> But I just wanted to point out that this is something the author (and
> I) would never expect to happen ...
>
> in_array("123abc", array(3, 7, 123, 28)) === true
>
Hi Simon,
That's how we differ in terms of perspective. When I see that in_array()
accepts a third argument $strict and that $strict defaults to false,
in_array("123abc", array(3, 7, 123)) === true is the behavior I expect for
that function:
http://php.net/manual/en/function.in-array.php
That said, perhaps the documentation could be augmented to help clarify the
issue. While example 2 on that page illustrates a non-match using the
strict check, it does seem like showing the opposite (a surprising match
when $strict is false, such as in the example your link pointed to) would
also prove beneficial to users, too.
Nice commentary.
Adam