Re: call_user_*()

Stefan Livieratos wrote:

"Sterling Hughes" <sterling@designmultimedia.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:3AFD8EF7.2030605@designmultimedia.com...

Howdy all,

    I've been going through the call_user_*() functions in

basic_functions.c and just a couple of notes/things I found odd. 1) With a aforementioned bug, thies was right, the following code fails, but it shouldn't: <?php function get_reference_as_arg(&$param) {

      var_dump($param);

} $name = "get_reference_as_arg"; $param1 = array(1, 2); call_user_func($name, $param1); ?> Fails. Whereas, replacing the call_user_func above with the following: call_user_func($name, array($param1));

Well, I thought that the function call_user_func_array() is supposed to be called this way. What good is it anyway? I suggest 'call_user_func_array' should be removed as it is not needed and also doesn't work with user functions that expect arguments by reference.

Well it is needed... If you need to decide how many arguments to pass to a function at execution time then the call_user_func_array() function is critical. -Sterling