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Posted by The Natural Philosopher on 09/04/07 15:28
ELINTPimp wrote:
>> PHP is in some respects retrograde: Its too much like BASIC in that you
>> can 'hack it till it works' too easily.
>
> Agreed, but that's why test driven development has such an important
> place in our world...but that is just another form of programmer
> introduced standard. Just like PHP's loosely typed aspect, it's a
> double edge sword...but I wouldn't have it any other way =).
>
coming from strictly typed C I find it awful.
When I want to cast a string to an integer, I'd rather do it explicitly..
I mean
$int="0"
If($int==0) echo "true";
if($int) echo "its non zero"
I am still not sure WHAT that last statement means, 0 means unsassigned,
non zero, or what...
At least in C you could be sure it meant 'the numerical value of
whatever $int is supposed to be, when cast to an integer, is tested for
zero)
And I used to LIKE my compilers giving me hell about
foo{return ('c');}
char p=foo();
and making me type it either as
char foo{return ('c');}
or char p=(char)foo();
Fussy, but it did pick up some errors all right.
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