Posted by Michael Fesser on 01/06/08 19:23

..oO(A Bit Narked)

>On Sun, 06 Jan 2008 19:43:28 +0100,
>"Rik Wasmus" <luiheidsgoeroe@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>>Ah, taking a closer look at your post, I'd say this: you cannot echo true
>>or false, they have no string value. PHP has loose typing, and false cast
>>to string would be '', cast to integer would be 0, the fact is that the
>>underlying value of false is not 0 (yes, it would be in C probably, but
>>not from the PHP side of things).
>
>And yet you can echo true. The output is '1'. You can also
>concat it into a string, where it also becomes a 1. The two
>constants are treated completely differently in that respect.

Nope. Both are just converted to a string:

TRUE => non-empty string ('1', but it could be anything)
FALSE => empty string

Makes perfect sense.

Micha

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