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Yeah, documentation is for pussies.
Here is one PHP core developer claiming that PHP documentation is wrong, even on fundamental things... http://www.reddit.com/r/lolphp/comments/2md8c0/new_safe_cast... Just saying....
That's right... they consider certain tests failing OK, a certain number of failures OK, tests failing nondeterministically OK.
Just saying... Who gives a shit about programmer headaches? ;)
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Once I wrote a little PHP application to manage a clan in a browser game. I used an MD5 hash as session id that I checked with if(session_id) When users started reporting that their logins would sometimes not work at the first time, I found out that strings that start with zero are coerced to 0 and then interpreted as false. Never used PHP for anything important since.
> I used an MD5 hash as session id > Never used PHP for anything important since. The problem here isn't PHP, the problem here is you.
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That - and the error is going to be a lot more subtle and harder to find. In all fairness though, it's a balancing act - There are benefits to dynamic typing, but PHP clearly overdid it. (See also the disaster that was/is magic quotes)
I believe you are confusing dynamic with weak typing. Other languages got dynamic typing quite right.
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Once I wrote a little PHP application to manage a clan in a browser game. I used an MD5 hash as session id that I checked with if(session_id) When users started reporting that their logins would sometimes not work at the first time, I found out that strings that start with zero are coerced to 0 and then interpreted as false. Never used PHP for anything important since.
> I used an MD5 hash as session id > Never used PHP for anything important since. The problem here isn't PHP, the problem here is you.
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> I used an MD5 hash as session id > Never used PHP for anything important since. The problem here isn't PHP, the problem here is you.
You bought a new car. You took it out for a ride. a tree falls before you. You brake, but the car proceeded to hit the tree anyway. You call the car company and talk to their engineers. One of them ask. 'Did this happen on a Friday evening, when it was raining?' You say 'Yes, how do you know?' The engineer replies. "Our brakes does not work on rainy Friday evenings. If you REALLY want to brake on a rainy Friday eveni…