On Jan 6, 2008 8:37 PM, Markus Fischer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> Hi,
>
> accidentally I came across settype() in ext/standard/type.c which says
>
> ~ } else if (!strcasecmp(new_type, "float")) {
> ~ convert_to_double(*var);
> ~ } else if (!strcasecmp(new_type, "double")) { /* deprecated */
> ~ convert_to_double(*var);
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> This is the context of calling
>
> ~ settype($val, "double");
>
> I don't understand the comment, because in gettype() there is
>
> ~ case IS_DOUBLE:
> ~ RETVAL_ASCII_STRING("double", 1);
> ~ break;
>
> There's no possibility that gettype() returns "float", so maybe this
> comment is just in the wrong line?
No, the comment is correct.
"for historical [read: BC] reasons "double" is returned in case of a
float, and not simply "float""
See http://docs.php.net/settype && http://docs.php.net/gettype
-Hannes
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