{{#switch}} should not cast values to integers or floats
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	Krinkle
	Mar 14 2013, 2:48 AM

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{{#switch: 1.20
|1.1=a
|1.2=b
|1.10=h
|1.20=t
}}

--> b

{{#switch: 1.10
|1.1=a
|1.2=b
|1.10=h
|1.20=t
}}

--> a

I don't know when this happened, but it happened recently I think.

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Not a regression; this was probably always broken because of the use of == instead of === in the relevant parts of the code.

In fact, this is documented at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:ParserFunctions#Comparison_behaviour. Fixing this may break compatibility with existing wikitext.

Of course, that's not to say I like the current behavior: it can make the result depend on PHP_INT_MAX!