Markus Fischer wrote:
> Sorry to hijack, but ...
>
> Christopher Jones wrote:
>> oci8.events and oci8.old_oci_close_semantics are boolean, so we can
>> take this opportunity to change the 1 and 0 to On and Off.
>
> ... I've never understood why writing On/Off is a good idea,

It improves human readability of php.ini, making it clear that the
parameter value range is not numeric.

> when it is not intuitive that the value returned from ini_get() is
> of a different content (not meaning, however).

It could possibly be argued there is an inconsistency somewhere, but
then PHP type juggling and comparison have their own "charm".

Chris

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