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Re:A look at modern PHP by out_of_protocol on Tuesday May 05, 2020 @12:59PM (#23082152)
Either choice doesn't really look like the sane language anymore
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Re:A look at modern PHP by mywittyname on Tuesday May 05, 2020 @03:19PM (#23083746)
When you have dynamically typed languages, whether to coerce or not is a design decision with usability trade-offs. Javascript exhibits pretty similar behavior with switch statements for exactly the same reason: it also has two types of equality comparisons.

Also, PHP allows you to add explicit type casting to case statements. e.g.,

    case (string) 1:
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