god damn it php

<?php
$foo = "0";  // $foo is string (ASCII 48)
$foo += 2;   // $foo is now an integer (2)
$foo = $foo + 1.3;  // $foo is now a float (3.3)
$foo = 5 + "10 Tiny Wangs"; // $foo is integer (15)
$foo = 5 + "10 Monstrous Cocks";     // $foo is integer (15)
?>


You cannot do that, that goes against the teachings of dead dogs!

um.  okay.

$ php -r "echo 0.15-0.05;"
0.0:

Type coercion isn't necessarily a bad thing, but PHP does go overboard.
It combines particularly nicely with the fact that the concatenation operator is . and not + like in every other language. You get hilariously nonsensical errors if you mess them up, e.g. in SQL queries.

But who need prepared statements?

Any language that has a string concatenation operator does not deserve respect.

>>4
Using + for concatenation is fucking retarded.  It's wrong for an operator to radically change behavior just because you passed it a different type.

>>5
This. String concatenation should always be a function so it's clear to the maintainer what's going on.

>>7
For template languages that doesn't make sense. I wouldn't be opposed to having ++ as the concatenation operator, but concatenate($string1, $string2) would hurt.
More so than PHP already does.

>>5
More like any language that doesn't have a dedicated string concatenation operator doesn't deserve respect?

It's easy to understand when there are separate operators for addition and string concatenation, like ++ in Haskell or .. in Lua or & in VB.

Also, using + for string concatenation is ok as long as a language has a sane type system and doesn't implicitly coerce values.

_{also it's nearly 2 am here and I'm probably not writing proper english but fuck it}

>>9:warning: VB used in comparison with any other languages

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leave string cat alone :(

Stray cat, dead dog.

>>11
How do you pronounce 'strcat'?

1. ess-tee-ar-see-aye-tee (faggot)
2. stir-cat
3. stor-cat
4. sudder

>>14
5. ess-tee-are cat (cool dude)

>>14
Stirkit, strinkit, and strilkit

>>14
``Stir-cat,'' obviously.

>>16
stir cat, stern cat, sterile cat

>>14
strur-cat

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       )   .'  /   .--'  |  /   / .-._)
       '\   _.'   /     /`-;__.' /
         '--.____.\    /--.___.-'
                   `""`

Just name your variables with a prefix; $f_, $i_, $s_ etc for float, int, string and so forth.

>>21
And also don't forget to include the scope and the purpose of the variable in the name!

All naming conventions are retarded

>>22
Did you mean: Retarded naming conventions are retarded

>>1
fuck you

>>23
fuck you too

>>21
EXPERT SIMONYI NOTATION

>>21
PHPDOC