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by masklinn 1519 days ago
> I think they're conflating the tradition from C-style languages of returning a false-ish value in-bound

It’s not really conflation when php has been doing that since forever as it originally was little more than a thin shim over C (you can see that in lots of older APIs e.g. the mysql_ stuff is straight transcribed from the C library).