On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 8:46 AM, Jim Giner <jim.giner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> >> I *have* heard claims that something like this is preferrable, though: >> >> if (FALSE === $variable) >> > I believe I read a comment somewhere once that writing your IF statements > that way helped to trigger an error message when the coder forgot to use the > double equal sign (==) in the statement. I haven't adopted it yet, but I > think that's the sole reason for it. Basically you can't make an assignment > (=) to a constant or some non-variable target. That sounds like a reasonable explanation to me. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php