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greg at endpoint

May 14, 2008, 5:42 PM

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Re: [MediaWiki-CVS] SVN: [34826] trunk/phase3/includes

> * Move $var ? true : false check to boolval function
...
> +
> +function boolval( $val ) {
> + return $val ? true : false;
> +}

What's the point of this function? Should we start creating things like
function equalto( $val1, $val2 ) as well? :)

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May 14, 2008, 5:46 PM

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Re: [MediaWiki-CVS] SVN: [34826] trunk/phase3/includes [In reply to]

On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 8:42 PM, Greg Sabino Mullane <greg[at]endpoint.com> wrote:
>
>> * Move $var ? true : false check to boolval function
> ...
>> +
>> +function boolval( $val ) {
>> + return $val ? true : false;
>> +}
>
> What's the point of this function? Should we start creating things like
> function equalto( $val1, $val2 ) as well? :)

Whoa, I didn't see that. WTF?

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tstarling at wikimedia

May 14, 2008, 11:25 PM

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Re: [MediaWiki-CVS] SVN: [34826] trunk/phase3/includes [In reply to]

Greg Sabino Mullane wrote:
>> * Move $var ? true : false check to boolval function
> ...
>> +
>> +function boolval( $val ) {
>> + return $val ? true : false;
>> +}
>
> What's the point of this function? Should we start creating things like
> function equalto( $val1, $val2 ) as well? :)

Perhaps Vasilev was put off by the verbose syntax "$val ? true : false".
The same behaviour can be obtained with "(bool)$val" or "!!$val", which
are both briefer and faster than either of his versions.

-- Tim Starling

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brion at wikimedia

May 15, 2008, 8:39 AM

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Re: [MediaWiki-CVS] SVN: [34826] trunk/phase3/includes [In reply to]

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Greg Sabino Mullane wrote:
>> * Move $var ? true : false check to boolval function
> ...
>> +
>> +function boolval( $val ) {
>> + return $val ? true : false;
>> +}
>
> What's the point of this function? Should we start creating things like
> function equalto( $val1, $val2 ) as well? :)

Yeah, we killed that one. :)

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