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It's also really bad style for TAX Software. He should be sanity checking all his numeric data, wow.
On another site, I would say “TRWTF is using PHP for taxes”. For that, give me a language with very strict numeric types!
I'm the first to walk away from a PHP bash session, but a wise man once said, "the right tool for the right job."
All the discussion aside, there is so much wrong with it: First of all, why does the function even accept strings? There should be some eception happening. Second, why does it return 0, i could understand NULL but not 0 (for a function that is supposed to handle numbers, having it return a number in the invalid case, what is that?)
> First of all, why does the function even accept strings? Why not? > There should be some eception happening. PHP's built-in functions do not ever throw exceptions. > Second, why does it return 0, i could understand NULL but not 0 Well it doesn't anymore, but it used to, and that kind-of made sense in the context of the language being PHP : in PHP (userland), when using a string in a numeric context that string will…
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Just because we observe somebody being a dick on the internet, does not give us permission to stalk them, expose their personal information (even if it can be freely found on the internet), round up a lynch mob, etc.
This is very bad behaviour on your part. This sort of thing can ruin lives. Please take it down.
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But the lines between research and industry or "applied programming" aren't that clear cut (look at how much Rich Hickey's been able to mine the veins of research and bring awesome ideas to a practical and well-designed language like Clojure). I think some healthy debate, which includes pointing out languages that have severe flaws, is important and I wouldn't want to discourage it from happening, especially not on H…
"healthy debate" Yes! This is what we do need, what we do NOT need is bullshit like "piddly shit" which you seemed to be defending. But please, tell me of one, just one, "severe flaw" you find in PHP, as it is today. And I will enter into a healthy debate with you.
I have nothing to say about PHP (because I've never used it) I was reacting to a specific comment in jbm's post, which generalized languages and debates around them. Sorry for derailing the thread from the topic of PHP, and I probably shouldn't have made a little dig with "severe flaw".
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wow.
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I've flagged your comment. Please remove it. Just because we observe somebody being a dick on the internet, does not give us permission to stalk them, expose their personal information (even if it can be freely found on the internet), round up a lynch mob, etc. This is very bad behaviour on your part. This sort of thing can ruin lives. Please take it down.
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I've flagged your comment. Please remove it. Just because we observe somebody being a dick on the internet, does not give us permission to stalk them, expose their personal information (even if it can be freely found on the internet), round up a lynch mob, etc. This is very bad behaviour on your part. This sort of thing can ruin lives. Please take it down.
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I'm happy to remove the comment. What guideline is this in direct opposition to? Genuine question, not being snarky.