Re: Re: Inaccurate documentation on return values from native functions
| From: | Christoph M. Becker | Date: | Sun, 01 Dec 2024 19:10:14 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Re: Inaccurate documentation on return values from native functions | ||
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On 01.12.2024 at 19:26, mickmackusa wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 1, 2024 at 10:01 PM Gina P. Banyard <internals@gpb.moe> wrote:
>
>> This should just have been an issue on the php/doc-en repo.
>>
>> Please open such an issue so that we can track it (or submit a PR).
>
> I am not sure that this is purely a problem with the documentation.
> It seems possible to me that someone updated the documentation to reflect a
> new intention for these functions.
> Will it not be that these functions will be altered in the core to do what
> the documentation says?
If the docs are not correct, we cannot simply change the source to
conform for BC reasons.
In this case, see <https://github.com/php/doc-en/issues/3629>.
Christoph