Re: zend_call_method() - support for up to 4 parameters

On Wed, 2009-02-18 at 11:34 +0300, Antony Dovgal wrote: > > recently, working on an extension, i wanted to call a method w/ 3 params, > > and as you know, zend_call_method only supports 2 parameters at most. i > > came across this thread in the archives, [...] > What happened to call_user_function() ? > Why break the API and make extension maintainers use even more #if's ? The benefit of zend_call_method is that you can keep the function pointer and so the lookup has not to do the lookup every time it is called which is quite nice. But I don't think that a new limitation is any better: Tomorrow we have to change it again as somebody has a reason to use 5 parameters, so if it is changed it should be changed to take any number of arguments and no fixed limit.... (or add a new API for that) johannes