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Re:PHP in 2022 by marcosdumay on Tuesday January 11, 2022 @09:28AM (#29891776)
If you only know "don't use ==, use ===", you will just fall for the next unityped trap. If you know why you shouldn't use `==`, you know enough so that even if you don't go for `===`, using `==` safely is the least of your problems.
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Re:PHP in 2022 by The_Colonel on Tuesday January 11, 2022 @09:51AM (#29892043)
> for the next unityped trap

Many languages are unityped and carry the same problems, yet they are hyped rather than bashed (e.g. Python, Ruby).

> If you know why you shouldn't use `==`, you know enough so that even if you don't go for `===`, using `==` safely is the least of your problems.

You have some weird false dichotomy going on. I'm personally in the state "I remember why == is bad (type coercion ...)" but I don't remember all the details to be able to use == correctly. I bet many people are in a similar situation.

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Re:PHP in 2022 by marcosdumay on Tuesday January 11, 2022 @12:04PM (#29894188)
Your two examples are not unityped, and most unityped languages are unityped all the way down and as a consequence do not have the same problems.
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