Re: Order of implode() params insignificant?

That's odd - for good reason I stick to the definition in the manual - those are the types of things that get "fixed" without warning. --Joe On Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 03:08:51PM -0800, Paul Mullen wrote: > An quirk in Rasmus Lerdorf's ORA PHP Pocket Reference [1] led me to the > discovery [2] that the order of the parameters used when calling either > implode() or join() seems to be inconsequential. That is, the functions > may be called with the parameters as ($src, $glue) or ($glue, $src), and > work fine in either case. Was this purposeful on the part of the PHP > developers? > > Paul > > > [1] The order of the parameters listed for the implode() function were > the reverse of those specified for the join() function, even though the > online docs claim that, join() an alias of sorts for implode(), they are > identical in their behavior. > > [2] I ran the following script as an experiment: > > <?PHP > > > $src = array( "This", "is", "a", "test" ); > $glue = '-'; > > $joined_glue_src = join( $glue, $src ); > $joined_src_glue = join( $src, $glue ); > > $imploded_glue_src = implode( $glue, $src ); > $imploded_src_glue = implode( $src, $glue ); > > echo<<<OUTPUT > join( glue, src ) = $joined_glue_src<br> > join( src, glue ) = $joined_src_glue<br> > <br> > implode( glue, src ) = $imploded_glue_src<br> > implode( src, glue ) = $imploded_src_glue<br> > OUTPUT; > > > ?> > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net ================================================================================ = Joe Stump joestump98@yahoo.com http://www.miester.org = ================================================================================ Need a programmer? http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Joe+Stump%22