On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 11:33 AM, Nikita Popov <nikita....@gmail.com> wrote:
> This is a general issue in PHP that we might want to fix: Currently a > method A is not compatible with a method B if A has less arguments than B. > > E.g. both of the following are incompatible signatures: > > public function foo($bar) > public function foo() > > public function foo($bar = NULL) > public function foo() > > This doesn't really make sense. Removing parameters doesn't violate LSP, > because in PHP it is legal to pass more arguments than declared. (Only > adding additional required parameters would violate LSP.) > > Is it okay to change this? > > Thanks, > Nikita > Patch for this change: https://github.com/php/php-src/pull/424 Nikita
