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Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 18:48:17 +0000
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] substr passing null...
From: paul.biggar@gmail.com (Paul Biggar)

On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 6:39 PM, Dan <dan@dancryer.com> wrote:
>>
>> You're assumption is wrong then, NULL isn't treated as not passing a
>> value. The reason it worked with substr was by pure chance.
>>
>
> Out of interest, is there a reason that that is the case? Surely passing
> null would be best treated as the same as passing nothing?

NULL is a value. There is no way to tell that when you pass NULL, you
actually intended to pass nothing and use the default value.

Paul


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