On Mon, Apr 20, 2020, at 10:45 AM, Benjamin Eberlei wrote: > > Sure, but how often is that an actual description of what the code > > accepts? I... cannot actually envision what code would actually accept > > that mess. :-) > > > > I can think of quite a few: > > - var_dump, print_r, more generally debugging/logging functions and > wrappers thereof > - json_encode, serialize, and more generally serialization and encoding > functions, as return value as well for the inverse operations > - database/nosql related functions (bindParam, bindValue) and as return > value from generic functions like fetch() > - Xpath::evaluate > - ldap query functions > > And wrappers of these extensions could benefit from passing on the mixed > type explicitly.
Valid examples. It would be helpful to add those to the RFC for clarity. --Larry Garfield -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
