On Sat, Mar 21, 2020 at 4:58 PM Craig Francis <cr...@craigfrancis.co.uk> wrote:
> I'm happy to use a different name; but I should add that is_numeric() isn't > really a type, there are other functions such as is_writable(), and the taint > extension uses is_tainted(). Right, good points. However, to my logic, whether or not the value was created from a literal is not something you can infer from the value itself, it needs an accompanying flag or something. I'll suggest is_from_literal() as a more precise formulation. > I've talked to Paul Dragoonis and Derick Rethans recently (they both kindly > did talks at PHP-SW); when I mentioned it to Paul, I was told that's where I > should start looking, and that was the correct terminology; and Derick helped > confirm some of these ideas (but we were walking to the pub at the time). Sounds like you were having fun though :-) > And while I keep trying, I don't know enough about C, or the internals of PHP. Appreciate the effort. -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
