Re: Describe what you do in 34 characters

abuse@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Peter Corlett) writes:

For fun on PHP comparisons, have a read of the documentation, and
*especially* the comments at
http://php.net/manual/en/language.operators.comparison.php to see why Perl
has two distinct sets of comparison operators, one for strings and one for
numbers.

I like their term "type juggling". Making it sound like they throw a
bunch of types up in the air and circulate them around clearly sets a
different expectation than an implication that certain types might be
reliably converted into certain others.

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