From: baldurien at bbnwn dot eu
Operating system:
PHP version: Irrelevant
PHP Bug Type: Documentation problem
Bug description: Typehinting support null value but the docs hide the facts!
Description:
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The documentation is missing the fact that the following statement is
possible :
function o1(Foo $arg0 = null, $x) {}
function o2(Foo& $arg0 = null, $x) {}
The code above works on 5.2.3 (which is fine).
The fact that a typehinted parameter can have a default (enforced to null)
value should be explained at least in the type hinting part of the doc
[http://ch2.php.net/manual/en/language.oop5.typehinting], with the version
of php that support it (I can't remember it it was working on 5.1).
Note also that the syntax can be misleading: one can easily think that
$arg0 take a default value, and that o1('a') is possible (or o1(,'a')?).
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Edit bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=41958&edit=1
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Try a CVS snapshot (PHP 4.4):
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=41958&r=trysnapshot44
Try a CVS snapshot (PHP 5.2):
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=41958&r=trysnapshot52
Try a CVS snapshot (PHP 6.0):
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=41958&r=trysnapshot60
Fixed in CVS: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=41958&r=fixedcvs
Fixed in release:
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=41958&r=alreadyfixed
Need backtrace: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=41958&r=needtrace
Need Reproduce Script: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=41958&r=needscript
Try newer version: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=41958&r=oldversion
Not developer issue: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=41958&r=support
Expected behavior: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=41958&r=notwrong
Not enough info:
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=41958&r=notenoughinfo
Submitted twice:
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=41958&r=submittedtwice
register_globals: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=41958&r=globals
PHP 3 support discontinued: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=41958&r=php3
Daylight Savings: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=41958&r=dst
IIS Stability: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=41958&r=isapi
Install GNU Sed: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=41958&r=gnused
Floating point limitations: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=41958&r=float
No Zend Extensions: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=41958&r=nozend
MySQL Configuration Error: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=41958&r=mysqlcfg
