Re: NULL Coercion Consistency

On Tue, Apr 26, 2022 at 12:18 AM Larry Garfield <larry@garfieldtech.com> wrote: > On Mon, Apr 25, 2022, at 4:07 PM, Rowan Tommins wrote: > > > Off the top of my head, I don't know what other inconsistencies remain, > > but my point was that in every case so far, internal functions have been > > adapted to match userland, not vice versa. > > <off topic> > > Internal functions error if you pass excessive arguments to a non-variadic > function. User-space functions just ignore the extras. This is an > inconsistency that has caused me considerable grief in the past year. > > I know Joe has said he wants userspace to become more strict like internal > on this one. I will not predict what actually happens. > > </off topic> > <more> A few internal functions have parameters with an UNKNOWN default value in the stubs, e.g. https://github.com/php/php-src/blob/php-8.1.5/Zend/zend_builtin_functions.stub.php#L35 function get_class(object $object = UNKNOWN): string {} documented with a question mark at https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.get-class.php get_class(object $object = ?): string or https://github.com/php/php-src/blob/php-8.1.5/ext/standard/basic_functions.stub.php#L1558 function mt_rand(int $min = UNKNOWN, int $max = UNKNOWN): int {} documented with two signatures at https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.mt-rand.php mt_rand(): int mt_rand(int $min, int $max): int </more> -- Guilliam Xavier