Re: cvs: phpdoc /en/functions sockets.xml

On 2002-8-01 16:08, Markus Fischer wrote: > On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 05:55:09AM -0000, Georg Richter wrote : > > georg Tue Jan 8 00:55:09 2002 EDT > > > > Modified files: > > /phpdoc/en/functions sockets.xml > > Log: > > > > fixed Bug 14894 (examples and function prototype for socket_read) > > Can we please agree that a function whose primary return > type is LONG/STRING/ARRAY/RESOURE/OBJECT and which may return > FALSE/NULL _only_ in error condition has _not_ a mixed return > value but has listed only its primary return value. > > Its less intuitive for users "mixed? was it now int or > string.. or even array ?" but it rather makes sense that > almost all functions return NULL/FALSE when encountering > error conditions without setting the return type to mixed > explicitely. +1 -- Zak Greant PHP Quality Assurance Team http://qa.php.net/ "We must be the change we wish to see." - M. K. Ghandi