Re: zend_parse_parameters

From: Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2001 14:28:09 +0000
Subject: Re: zend_parse_parameters
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At 05:48 PM 8/24/2001 +0100, Wez Furlong wrote:

On 24/08/01, "Andrei Zmievski" <andrei@ispi.net> wrote:
Initially, I had another specifier that would let you receive just the
string pointer, but in discussions with Andi we agreed that it would be
good to always return the length as well. Binary safety was a major
consideration in this. Don't you think people will start passing NULL
all the time if this rule is relaxed?

I understand, and yes, they would.

It just seems a shame to have to declare those ints when they are not
used.


I won't repeat what Andrei said. I think it's a good thing because it pretty much forces people to be aware of binary safety. We have done a great job in PHP up to now when it comes to binary safety and I wouldn't want this to change.



zend_parse_parameters does a great job of reducing the "tedium"
and clutter of declaring a php function, so I should just be grateful and
keep my mouth shut :)


:) I think for 4.0.8 we could change lots of places to use zend_parse_parameters(). It definitely improves parameter handling.

Andi

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