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TylerE on June 22, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: We will try to stop fixing bugs in PHP

Probably. But then again, we're talking about a language where THIS happens:

php> echo "2coolforschool" + 1;

3

php> echo "2.1coolforschool" + 1;

3.1

php> echo "coolforschool" + 1;

1

So treating all kinds of garbage as valid numbers is absolutely part of PHP.

piggity on June 23, 2012 [–]

That's just the general design philosophy of the MP components of the LAMP stack.

Do the stupidest thing that could possibly work; and it probably will. For now.

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