WF>> I don't see what is so special about hinted parameters that they have to WF>> bail out the engine, while the built-in (and extension) functions will WF>> happily return NULL and continue execution.
The functions that are built-in have defined behaviour of returning NULL in case of error (if they do not and they still return NULL as error - that's a serious bug). However, this is not true for each and every function out there. -- Stanislav Malyshev, Zend Products Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.zend.com/ +972-3-6139665 ext.109 -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
