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RE: [ZEND-ENGINE-CVS] cvs: ZendEngine2(PHP_5_1)

Andi Gutmans

2005-11-18, 6:56 pm

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

[color=darkred]
>Thanks. Dmitry.
>

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