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Reply-To: Jani Taskinen <sniper@iki.fi>
To: Nuno Lopes <nlopess@php.net>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] generate a notice for bogus function calls
From: sniper@iki.fi (Jani Taskinen)


     No way.

     --Jani


On Mon, 19 Sep 2005, Nuno Lopes wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> Although this is not as hot as references or Unicode stuff, I would like to 
> discuss a new topic.
> Currently PHP accepts more parameters to a function than the required.
> In English:
> <?
> function a($b) {}
> a(1,2,3);
> ?>
>
> PHP accepts this and generates no errors. My purpose is to start generating an 
> E_NOTICE, just like we do for not yet initialized variables.
> This behaviour has already beaten me for a couple of times, because I had a 
> program with functions with similar names, but with different number of 
> parameters. The result for calling the wrong function? A nice infinite loop :)
>
> I hope this is not hard to implement (maybe in the parser, to get the errors 
> on compile time - for performance).
>
> Regards,
> Nuno 
>

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