generate a notice for bogus function calls
| From: | Nuno Lopes | Date: | Mon, 19 Sep 2005 21:28:15 +0000 |
| Subject: | generate a notice for bogus function calls | ||
| Groups: | php.internals | ||
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Hi,
Although this is not as hot as references or Unicode stuff, I would like to discuss a new topic.
Currently PHP accepts more parameters to a function than the required.
In English:
<?
function a($b) {}
a(1,2,3);
?>
PHP accepts this and generates no errors. My purpose is to start generating an E_NOTICE, just like we do for not yet initialized variables.
This behaviour has already beaten me for a couple of times, because I had a program with functions with similar names, but with different number of parameters. The result for calling the wrong function? A nice infinite loop :)
I hope this is not hard to implement (maybe in the parser, to get the errors on compile time - for performance).
Regards,
Nuno