I don't see any reason not allow null as default value for arguments with
array type hint.
In real OOP languages "array" just a special class.
The situation before this patch was buggy.
Compiler allowed (array $a = null), but executor emited error.
Thanks. Dmitry.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andi Gutmans [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Friday, November 18, 2005 4:10 AM
> To: Derick Rethans; Dmitry Stogov
> Cc: [email protected]
> 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
> >sense to me.
> >
> >Derick
> >
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