Hello,
Thanks for providing this possibility to ask for further
documentation. It nicely absorbs my annoyance at something not
working for me and safely channels the energy constructively. Hurray!
Anyhow, this indispensable operator === (three equal signs) is not
documented under the entry for type bool (or anywhere else?). It is
only mentioned in a user-added comment but never actually explained.
The fact that PHP can't tell the difference between not finding
something and finding it at byte 0 of a string or element 0 of an
array has been a real weakness since the beginning. Evidently it
can't be dealt with easily, e.g. as Perl does by returning -1 when
not found. I won't ask why. But if it can't simply be fixed, and if
we have to use this === operator, please document it for us. I have
found e.g. that there is something funny, that I have to say !==
false rather than === true, or somethong like that. But I can never
get it right the first time it seems. Pls have pity on folks like me! :)
many thanks. keep up the good work, John
