note 126918 added to migration81.deprecated

Passing null parameter when the type is a string/structure or any other pointer is saying there is no data in most C functions, which is a program language PHP is very alike. Which reason, besides "align with the behaviour of user-defined functions" is there to deprecate this? I mean, it takes me hours to fix this in my source, without being able to think of a logical improvement this brings. Besides people who like consistency, just for fact it is consistency, this just seems to give developers a headache. Ouch! Please get back on this decision! ---- Server IP: 45.112.84.4 Probable Submitter: 80.90.5.135 (proxied: 89.205.129.209) ---- Manual Page -- https://php.net/manual/en/migration81.deprecated.php Edit -- https://main.php.net/note/edit/126918 Del: integrated -- https://main.php.net/note/delete/126918/integrated Del: useless -- https://main.php.net/note/delete/126918/useless Del: bad code -- https://main.php.net/note/delete/126918/bad+code Del: spam -- https://main.php.net/note/delete/126918/spam Del: non-english -- https://main.php.net/note/delete/126918/non-english Del: in docs -- https://main.php.net/note/delete/126918/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://main.php.net/note/delete/126918 Reject -- https://main.php.net/note/reject/126918 Search -- https://main.php.net/manage/user-notes.php