On 14 Jul 2014, at 15:17, Andrea Faulds <a...@ajf.me> wrote:
>
> On 14 Jul 2014, at 15:03, Rowan Collins <rowan.coll...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Looking at the current table in the RFC, I'm not clear why NULL should pass
>> as any value, but not array. Could it not behave the same as the existing
>> type hints, i.e. accepted only if declared as a default?
>>
>> function foo(array $bar) { } foo(null); // ERROR
>> function foo(array $bar=null) { } foo(null); // OK, $bar == NULL
>> function foo(int $bar) { } foo(null); // ERROR
>> function foo(int $bar=null) { } foo(null); // OK, $bar == NULL
>
> I’m thinking this as well. I wonder if perhaps it should be casted by
> default, but if you make it explicitly nullable, it won’t cast if NULL is
> passed.
This has been done now, as it was what I wanted to do and Anthony’s original
intention. It works like this:
function foo(int $a) { var_dump($a); }
function bar(int $a = NULL) { var_dump($a); }
foo(NULL); // int(0)
bar(NULL); // NULL
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Andrea Faulds
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