NYCPHP Meetup

[Anirudh Zala]

On Thursday 03 Jan 2008 04:39:26 Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote:
> Jake McGraw wrote:
> > Tim:
> >
> > You're not to fault, and the point about Java collections Vs array() is
> > pretty good, unfortunately, I never made it that far because I was
> > completely turned off by the "article", the exact text Tim was referring
> > to:
> >
> > James Anderson wrote: The really simple answer is that after the release
> > of php 5, php became the better language.
>
> Oh really? From http://zestyping.livejournal.com/124503.html
>
>
> % cat equality.php
> <?php
>
> $a = 0;
> $b = "eggs";
> $c = "spam";
>
> print ($a == $b) ? "a == b\n" : "a != b\n";
> print ($b == $c) ? "b == c\n" : "b != c\n";
> print ($a == $c) ? "a == c\n" : "a != c\n";
> print ($a == $d) ? "a == d\n" : "a != d\n";
> print ($b == $d) ? "b == d\n" : "b != d\n";
> print ($c == $d) ? "c == d\n" : "c != d\n";
>
> ?>
>
> % php equality.php
> a == b
> b != c
> a == c
> a == d
> b != d
> c != d
>
> (Of course, starting in version 5, Java began to mess up simple
> Aristotelian logic too, but not quite this badly.)

Seriously PHP is not for cool kids. You need to grow a bit to learn and 
understand it properly. I think PHP has chosen *different* rules to evaluate 
expressions and since those rules are bit different than other regular  
programming/scripting languages it is obvious that we can see this kind of 
opposition.