#30407 [NEW]: Strange behaviour of default arguments

From: guth at fiifo dot u-psud dot fr Operating system: Linux PHP version: 5CVS-2004-10-12 (dev) PHP Bug Type: Unknown/Other Function Bug description: Strange behaviour of default arguments Description: ------------ After your asked me to try an other bug with PHP 5.1.0, i tryed to run my unit tests on it. All passes, except the following. I don't know if it's a new PHP 5.1.0 feature, but i don't think that this behaviour is really useful and it can be very confusing too. PHP version : php5-200410111030 Reproduce code: --------------- <?php function haricow($a = 'one') { var_dump($a); $a = 'two'; } haricow(); haricow(); Expected result: ---------------- string(3) "one" string(3) "one" Actual result: -------------- string(3) "one" string(3) "two" -- Edit bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=30407&edit=1 -- Try a CVS snapshot (php4): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=30407&r=trysnapshot4 Try a CVS snapshot (php5.0): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=30407&r=trysnapshot50 Try a CVS snapshot (php5.1): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=30407&r=trysnapshot51 Fixed in CVS: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=30407&r=fixedcvs Fixed in release: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=30407&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=30407&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=30407&r=needscript Try newer version: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=30407&r=oldversion Not developer issue: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=30407&r=support Expected behavior: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=30407&r=notwrong Not enough info: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=30407&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=30407&r=submittedtwice register_globals: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=30407&r=globals PHP 3 support discontinued: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=30407&r=php3 Daylight Savings: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=30407&r=dst IIS Stability: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=30407&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=30407&r=gnused Floating point limitations: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=30407&r=float MySQL Configuration Error: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=30407&r=mysqlcfg