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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [VOTE] get_class() disallow null parameter
From: cmbecker69@gmx.de ("Christoph M. Becker")

On 25.09.2016 at 11:29, Leigh wrote:

> On Sun, 25 Sep 2016 at 06:29 Pierre Joye <pierre.php@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Also this behavior is clearly documented:
>>
>> http://th1.php.net/manual/en/function.get-class.php
>>
>> "If object is omitted when inside a class, the name of that class is
>> returned."
>>
>> I am opposed to break BC because we change our mind about how clean is this
>> behavior and I recommend the (future) RMs to veto this change.
> 
> This is ambiguous at best.
> 
> "Omitted" and "Not omitted but set to null" are different things.

However, the changelog entry for 5.3.0 states:

| NULL became the default value for object, so passing NULL to object
| now has the same result as not passing any value.

And that's what I would expect when reading the function signature;
after all, NULL is the default value of $object.

-- 
Christoph M. Becker