hi Stas,

On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 6:53 PM, Stas Malyshev <smalys...@sugarcrm.com> wrote:

>> Arguments being silently ignored sounds like a potential bug to me. I
>> know it's something I've seen in code I've maintained.
>
> No, it's not a bug - extra arguments were silently ignored in PHP since the
> dawn of time.

Inconsistently. Many internals functions do not accept more arguments
than the supported ones.

However, what are the benefits to be less strict in your example? I
can't think of any practical (or critical) example where you have to
remove this optional argument.

Cheers,
-- 
Pierre

@pierrejoye | http://blog.thepimp.net | http://www.libgd.org

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