On Tue, 15 Nov 2005, Dmitry Stogov wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Nov 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
> >
> > 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.
>
> I think it make a lot of sense.
> Before the patch "function foo(array $x = null)" may fail at execution time,
> because "null" is not an array.
Yes, and that is perfectly fine. In this case you would usually want to
have an empty array, and not merely a "null" anyway. It is different
from an object, because there is no "empty object" or something like
that.
Derick
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