* Thus wrote I2eptileX: > I don't get it, this is a real problem for me. This is a backward > incompatibility that brakes a lot of things. > You are allways whining about not being able to change the strange > parameters from functions due to backwards incompatibility. There a > simple alias function would do the trick, and make things better and for > new programers much more logical.
I'm not sure who you're talking to. > But now you do something like this, that makes absolutetly no sense to me. > And your doku at the given site is wrong, because I could live with a > warning, but I cannot live with an empty array due to an array merge. This change actually fixes something that was broken. The function is designed to accept multiple array's and merge them together; not to take any value, if not array convert to an array, then merge the array's. What happens if you do something like: $var = 'scalar'; echo current($var); > Instead of: > array_merge() was changed to accept only arrays. If a non-array variable > is passed, a E_WARNING will be thrown for every such parameter. Be > careful because your code may start emitting E_WARNING out of the blue. > > It should say: > array_merge() was changed to accept only arrays. If a non-array variable > is passed, a E_WARNING will be thrown for every such parameter and your > resulting array will be empty. Be careful because your code may start > emitting E_WARNING out of the blue and all of them will result in an > empty array. You can submit a documentation bug at http://bugs.php.net/. > > Can you at least explain me why it has been changed, before I go and > change 150 lines of code, please? - Do some research. - Contact the internals list and ask them: http://php.net/mailing-lists.php note: You might want to change your tone of you message, i doubt calling the developers 'whiners' is really going to help you get your questions answered. Curt -- The above comments may offend you. flame at will. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
