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

From: Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 22:40:42 +0000
Subject: Re: [ZEND-ENGINE-CVS] cvs: ZendEngine2(PHP_5_1) /zend_compile.c
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Hello Andi,

Friday, November 18, 2005, 8:30:09 PM, you wrote:

> 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.

That's a very purist oppinion and somehow contradicts php's kiss approach.
In th ebeginning i was against this too. Just because language design theory
would forbit this (unless we have a syntax to explicitly allow null too).
However a lot of users want this and even though those designs are probably
considered very bad from any university it seems to help them.


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

Oh you refer to stipped down languages like Java?

regards
marcus

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