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Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 20:29:52 +0200
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To: Stas Malyshev <smalyshev@sugarcrm.com>
Cc: Dave Ingram <dave@dmi.me.uk>, PHP Internals <internals@lists.php.net>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] inheritance check too strict?
From: pierre.php@gmail.com (Pierre Joye)

hi Stas,

On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 6:53 PM, Stas Malyshev <smalyshev@sugarcrm.com> wrote:

>> Arguments being silently ignored sounds like a potential bug to me. I
>> know it's something I've seen in code I've maintained.
>
> No, it's not a bug - extra arguments were silently ignored in PHP since the
> dawn of time.

Inconsistently. Many internals functions do not accept more arguments
than the supported ones.

However, what are the benefits to be less strict in your example? I
can't think of any practical (or critical) example where you have to
remove this optional argument.

Cheers,
-- 
Pierre

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