Newsgroups: php.internals
Path: news.php.net
Xref: news.php.net php.internals:105931
Return-Path: <george.banyard@gmail.com>
Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net
Received: (qmail 6957 invoked from network); 14 Jun 2019 20:15:20 -0000
Received: from unknown (HELO mail-vs1-f51.google.com) (209.85.217.51)
  by pb1.pair.com with SMTP; 14 Jun 2019 20:15:20 -0000
Received: by mail-vs1-f51.google.com with SMTP id q64so2274024vsd.1
        for <internals@lists.php.net>; Fri, 14 Jun 2019 10:28:47 -0700 (PDT)
DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed;
        d=gmail.com; s=20161025;
        h=mime-version:references:in-reply-to:from:date:message-id:subject:to
         :cc;
        bh=0Ip5tWRrCsgjUsi+DjUVEZNFckGGUvj3269qFCMyY2A=;
        b=pj5tnqEL+X9KI+5s5fef4r4gPCt6Fo2lGYQHgQrcETTqiL+vK0tl1c2GQcr0UN/h3i
         YempWPp7YvaB+0hr++d7yY1EZNn8R8Fr14l3MvwcJk+I4/d3XFYsvC+m/jTYOJ5KjHv5
         3Er3UQxdn69XWBZo91Vmc9JB8PXOnjkWb8QszZiGCjV5SLQGGXlKbixrs+3vAF4M2PPH
         HI24a/BbtYyAdkv89ep9pIfVa0H6wAOKLUvmgTrdKo/bsLGMDcLBFMA4Rp/CyV3++j2O
         CnNB2yrDpmy9BBLf2goqnPVMIKcqR1ydyHruwYPiWC1YGw+EdfKJlytsAYuzyuGGujyq
         riHA==
X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed;
        d=1e100.net; s=20161025;
        h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:references:in-reply-to:from:date
         :message-id:subject:to:cc;
        bh=0Ip5tWRrCsgjUsi+DjUVEZNFckGGUvj3269qFCMyY2A=;
        b=owN2EULK8MBqlzeve9gx4ERJKgc4yXLeMdvR9iWbJj1kLAdaVES7oIrfG/cGw0m9jx
         dCHg9o9xFK/QuPnJb4V8RaB4MQekvRlgKD6yHizqlJAn66YNsqDatQWR+r2pcfypeJ65
         xXo+k2ykL2pou+AKAOHvVoUzffo/6/nwwrIOiWTOkretpegqp88yAL0j+CCDAoaWHPmA
         8nyP9A8fkuZzkawxqSU6ilrUbMYVaHrFhUTjHeplVRggI/COrvGFD7+x9PJ992YBxzb5
         YkjcYBQnOafXymHOisBalKcVmKVjuvBJ3qMsxmSSeAHFwlCHH6d7frHMW1Gyr3C0obm8
         F60w==
X-Gm-Message-State: APjAAAW+n8GooSQfneeO4J6e6IsVS4qIdOFtTv4WTpBTreSDnhIViHcz
	L2laetjvKV8zQAG4ym4DqvnSf/zaBwaHlRfGa9M=
X-Google-Smtp-Source: APXvYqymBlM5GLd+BIWF3u1zL+MtAhsCKmDr8GBhriAlW7XPIP0N96EhwHFFXTe/6Om3BlLuiPpIoh/Dv9i4HAxZTPg=
X-Received: by 2002:a67:7c4d:: with SMTP id x74mr45352512vsc.28.1560533326978;
 Fri, 14 Jun 2019 10:28:46 -0700 (PDT)
MIME-Version: 1.0
References: <CAG9XoMThqtVYLRo7QscexKZ2os2etBEtSuUQfBzv3pzzdteZAw@mail.gmail.com>
 <CAESVnVpGHUD0JeuXcCMq_kf-VszN96Ue0FRDOfQ9icBFjq4TOw@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAESVnVpGHUD0JeuXcCMq_kf-VszN96Ue0FRDOfQ9icBFjq4TOw@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2019 19:26:36 +0200
Message-ID: <CAFPFaM+ZrQ3mSvW+DoxCes0-Mrj9SxJf0i90ijqUcKG5gtc5FQ@mail.gmail.com>
To: Sara Golemon <pollita@php.net>
Cc: Benjamin Morel <benjamin.morel@gmail.com>, PHP Internals <internals@lists.php.net>
Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="0000000000009d67bd058b4bfac7"
Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Allow zero parameters in array_merge()?
From: george.banyard@gmail.com ("G. P. B.")

--0000000000009d67bd058b4bfac7
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"

On Fri, 14 Jun 2019 at 19:21, Sara Golemon <pollita@php.net> wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 14, 2019 at 12:15 PM Benjamin Morel <benjamin.morel@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > I'm wondering if there's any reason why array_merge() doesn't allow zero
> > arrays to be passed?
> >
> >     array_merge(); // Warning:  array_merge() expects at least 1
> parameter,
> > 0 given
> >
> > It would be reasonable IMO to return an empty array in this case.
> >
>
> I don't see any issue with this plan. I say do it.
>
> -Sara
>


Already the case in PHP 7.4
See changelog:
https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.array-merge.php#refsect1-function.array-merge-changelog

George P. Banyard

--0000000000009d67bd058b4bfac7--