On Sun, Apr 28, 2019 at 6:05 PM Gabriel Caruso <carusogabrie...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Currently, if you pass an argument that is not an integer, it will simply > return an empty string: https://3v4l.org/FF2nA. Not entirely accurate. It outputs a one-character string (the null byte). > In case you pass more than > 1 argument, it will complain about "Wrong number of arguments": > https://3v4l.org/Yrr43. > > > The proposal of https://github.com/php/php-src/pull/4080 is to relly these > checks to ZPP, making the first argument mandatory to an integer, and make > the error message for extra arguments consistent with the rest of the core > functions, e.g. "Warning: chr() expects parameter 1 to be int, string > given". > > I'm actually perfectly in favor of raising a proper warning here. I noticed the odd behavior when I was porting this function to HHVM and IIRC I raised a discussion about it and the bottom line was "Let's not do this because X", and I couldn't possibly tell you what X was. :( The thread is out there somewhere though. > The idea is to merge in PHP-7.4, but if there's a consensus that this > should go into PHP 8 only, so it is :) > > Technically a BC break, so 8.0 would be the preferred branch IMO. -Sara
