Re: return int or bool?

Yes it should be corrected. This is a bad proto information. -- M.CHAILLAN Nicolas nicos@php.net www.WorldAKT.com Hébergement de sites internets. "Maxim Maletsky" <maxim@php.net> a écrit dans le message de news: 20021110014721.7BEE.MAXIM@php.net... > > Guys, I've been wondering about the returns specified for function > protos. > > Many functions (as OCICommit() or copy() or even phpinfo() for instance) > do an action and return you the result relevant to their success as the > boolean type. However, these functions are documented as: > > int OCICommit ( int connection) > int copy ( string source, string dest) > > in other words, they say the return is an integer. That is a very > confusing thing IMO. Especially because functions like is_dir() or > file_exists() show it right: > > bool is_dir ( string filename) > bool file_exists ( string filename) > > true, one doing: > > if(OCICommit($conn)) > echo 'ok'; > else > echo 'doh'; > > will still get the desired result, but if one tries to compare it to > zeros and ones will fail.. in fact, even a simple: > > if(phpinfo() === 1) > echo "result is integer 1"; > > will fail because even phpinfo() returns boolean, not integer... ( == 1 > will work though because of the runtime typecasting...) > > I cannot see the reason why so many functions should still claim to return integers > while they in fact return booleans. It is so confusing, IMO. > > Shouldn't we correct them? There are way more than only these two > functions I used as examples. > > -- > Maxim Maletsky > maxim@php.net >