On 2002-8-01 16:08, Markus Fischer wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 05:55:09AM -0000, Georg Richter wrote :
> > georg Tue Jan 8 00:55:09 2002 EDT
> >
> > Modified files:
> > /phpdoc/en/functions sockets.xml
> > Log:
> >
> > fixed Bug 14894 (examples and function prototype for socket_read)
>
> Can we please agree that a function whose primary return
> type is LONG/STRING/ARRAY/RESOURE/OBJECT and which may return
> FALSE/NULL _only_ in error condition has _not_ a mixed return
> value but has listed only its primary return value.
>
> Its less intuitive for users "mixed? was it now int or
> string.. or even array ?" but it rather makes sense that
> almost all functions return NULL/FALSE when encountering
> error conditions without setting the return type to mixed
> explicitely.
+1
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