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Re:What's new in PHP 8? by darthrupert on Friday August 14, 2020 @01:30AM (#24154034)
These are easy questions.

1. If you convert a string which has non-numbers to an integer, an error is raised

2. Truthiness should not exist as a concept. Just booleans and expressions that evaluate to booleans.

PHP's backwards compatibilty promise makes these more difficult questions, of course.

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Re:What's new in PHP 8? by Erlich_Bachman on Sunday August 16, 2020 @03:30PM (#24180497)
> 2. Truthiness should not exist as a concept.

Meh, it's actually quite useful in many situations.

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Re:What's new in PHP 8? by pavlov on Friday August 14, 2020 @04:07AM (#24155178)
Easy questions but not obvious answers.

What kind of error to raise? Do you return a NaN? Throw an exception? Both have their uses.

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Re:What's new in PHP 8? by darthrupert on Friday August 14, 2020 @04:51AM (#24155494)
Throw a standard exception. E.g. python calls it a ValueError. Returing NaN is clearly wrong design.
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