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		troels on May 4, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: PHP: md5('240610708') == md5('QNKCDZO') That - and the error is going to be a lot more subtle and harder to find. In all fairness though, it's a balancing act - There are benefits to dynamic typing, but PHP clearly overdid it. (See also the disaster that was/is magic quotes)

jablan on May 4, 2015 [–]

I believe you are confusing dynamic with weak typing. Other languages got dynamic typing quite right.

troels on May 6, 2015 | [–]

Right - that should have read weak typing.

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