On Thu, 2009-12-31 at 12:20 +0000, Derick Rethans wrote: > Hmm, I don't actually think many people test whether parsing parameters > failed, but they do test the return value. AFAIK, our "standard" is to > return NULL for parameter parsing failures (at least that's what all the > examples in README.PARAMETER_PARSING_API do). I'd like to see that be > the case for all things, but changing it now could be quite a bit of a > BC break.
This is also the documented as the general convention: http://de.php.net/manual/en/functions.internal.php While there are exceptions to this on purpose: For instance get_object is documented to "Return FALSE if /object/ is not an object" (this exception was discussed in detail in the past) johannes -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
