Hi Philip,

Wednesday, May 29, 2002, 6:25:30 PM, you wrote:


> The phpdoc howto does tell us to document float 
> versus double but:

>   $i = 4.43;
>   print gettype($i); // double

> Seems strange, this should be mentioned somewhere.  
> Perhaps on language.types.float.  I assume it 
> (double) remains for historical/BC reasons in 
> gettype().

Yes, that was the reason I deleted double in this context.
Here it is the historical reason documented:
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.gettype.php

but I see no reason against to make this point clearer in
language.types.float :-)

 Regards
 Friedhelm                           

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