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Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2022 17:17:43 -0500
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] NULL Coercion Consistency
From: larry@garfieldtech.com ("Larry Garfield")

On Mon, Apr 25, 2022, at 4:07 PM, Rowan Tommins wrote:

> Off the top of my head, I don't know what other inconsistencies remain, 
> but my point was that in every case so far, internal functions have been 
> adapted to match userland, not vice versa.

<off topic>

Internal functions error if you pass excessive arguments to a non-variadic function.  User-space functions just ignore the extras.  This is an inconsistency that has caused me considerable grief in the past year.

I know Joe has said he wants userspace to become more strict like internal on this one.  I will not predict what actually happens.

</off topic>

--Larry Garfield