On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 12:20 AM, Sara Golemon <poll...@php.net> wrote: > Okay, well... the main pieces of feedback I'd give on it then is to not > change the behavior of the '!' modifier. That's bad BC. The behavior for pointer-params isn't changed. Only non-pointer params will then accept the additional is_null argument.
> FWIW, there are a few examples of this being handled by defining the default > value of the parameter to something non-sensical (such as a length of -1), > then doing zpp with "|l!" would leave the default -1 alone when NULL is > passed, and you can treat as "not passed". Granted this is a bit of a hack > and won't work for all situations. Your approach is more comprehensive, > just saying that for many cases it's not strictly needed. If I'm not much mistaken this is not actually possible. NULL is interpreted by PHP as a zero-y value. So the variable will be just set to 0 and you have no way to discern a real 0 and NULL. Nikita -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
