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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: [RFC] [DISCUSSION] Consistent Function Names
From: rowan.collins@gmail.com (Rowan Collins)

On 06/03/2015 23:03, Yasuo Ohgaki wrote:
> We have a lot of array_u*() functions such as
>
> http://php.net/manual/en/function.array-uintersect-uassoc.php
> array array_uintersect_uassoc ( array $array1 , array $array2 [, array $...
> ], callable $value_compare_func , callable $key_compare_func )
> this can be consolidated to
> http://php.net/manual/en/function.array-intersect-assoc.php
> array array_intersect_assoc ( array $array1 , array $array2 [, array $... ]
> )
>
> All of these has callback the end of parameters. These may be consolidated.
> I'll add this to the RFC if this is preferred.

Those functions both take any number of arguments, so given a function 
call with 4 arguments, you can't know if that's 4 arrays, or 2 arrays 
and 2 callbacks. Don't forget that array($class_name, $method_name) is a 
valid callback, so you can't judge it by the type of the arguments either.

Regards,

-- 
Rowan Collins
[IMSoP]