RE: [ZEND-ENGINE-CVS] cvs: ZendEngine2(PHP_5_1) /zend_compile.c

At 11:51 PM 11/17/2005, Dmitry Stogov wrote:

I don't see any reason not allow null as default value for arguments with array type hint.

It's not a valid array value.

In real OOP languages "array" just a special class.

But we're not a real OOP language, we are PHP. Arrays are native types (and I hope they remain so), and I think it's cleaner to require people to write an empty array as the default value.

The situation before this patch was buggy. Compiler allowed (array $a = null), but executor emited error.

Maybe we should fix the compiler? Andi

Thanks. Dmitry. -----Original Message----- From: Andi Gutmans [mailto:andi@zend.com] Sent: Friday, November 18, 2005 4:10 AM To: Derick Rethans; Dmitry Stogov Cc: zend-engine-cvs@lists.php.net Subject: Re: [ZEND-ENGINE-CVS] cvs: ZendEngine2(PHP_5_1) /zend_compile.c Yeah. I don't see why null should be allowed either. At 10:55 AM 11/15/2005, Derick Rethans wrote:

On Tue, 15 Nov 2005, Dmitry Stogov wrote:

dmitry                Tue Nov 15 11:49:44 2005 EDT

  Modified files:              (Branch: PHP_5_1)
    /ZendEngine2      zend_compile.c

Log: Allow "null" default value for arguments with array type hint

Hello Dmitry, I didn't implement this because in those cases you should set the default to = array(), and this is working fine even before

your patch:

function boo(array $ar = array()) { } This is why I didn't implement this for array, as it doesn't

make much

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