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		code_duck on May 27, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: These are things in PHP which make me sad You should check out JavaScript - the type coercion is similar but even worse.

VMG on May 27, 2011 [–]

but JS isn't behaving weirdly with return values. Overall, JavaScript is much less WTF than php.

code_duck on May 27, 2011 | [–]

It's impressive how they managed to do that, given that PHP is a single open source platform with one major implementation, in contrast to JS.

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