mfischer Mon Jun 10 05:15:37 2002 EDT
Modified files:
/phpdoc/en/language types.xml
/phpdoc/en/reference/var/functions is-null.xml
Log:
- Properly document when a var is considered to be NULL and when not,
closes #13577.
Index: phpdoc/en/language/types.xml
diff -u phpdoc/en/language/types.xml:1.83 phpdoc/en/language/types.xml:1.84
--- phpdoc/en/language/types.xml:1.83 Sun Jun 9 15:52:00 2002
+++ phpdoc/en/language/types.xml Mon Jun 10 05:15:36 2002
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
-<!-- $Revision: 1.83 $ -->
+<!-- $Revision: 1.84 $ -->
<chapter id="language.types">
<title>Types</title>
@@ -1807,6 +1807,26 @@
The null type was introduced in PHP 4
</simpara>
</note>
+ <para>
+ A variable is considered to be &null; if
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ it has been assigned the constant &null;.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ it has not been set to any value yet.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ it has been <function>unset</function>.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+ </para>
<sect2 id="language.types.null.syntax">
<title>Syntax</title>
@@ -1819,6 +1839,9 @@
$var = NULL;
</programlisting>
</informalexample>
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ See also <function>is_null</function> and <function>unset</function>.
</para>
</sect2>
Index: phpdoc/en/reference/var/functions/is-null.xml
diff -u phpdoc/en/reference/var/functions/is-null.xml:1.2
phpdoc/en/reference/var/functions/is-null.xml:1.3
--- phpdoc/en/reference/var/functions/is-null.xml:1.2 Wed Apr 17 02:44:57 2002
+++ phpdoc/en/reference/var/functions/is-null.xml Mon Jun 10 05:15:37 2002
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
-<!-- $Revision: 1.2 $ -->
+<!-- $Revision: 1.3 $ -->
<!-- splitted from ./en/functions/var.xml, last change in rev 1.35 -->
<refentry id="function.is-null">
<refnamediv>
@@ -19,7 +19,12 @@
&false; otherwise.
</para>
<para>
- See also <function>is_bool</function>,
+ See the <link linkend="language.types.null.syntax">&null;</link> type
+ when a variable is considered to be &null; and when not.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ See also <link linkend="language.types.null.syntax">&null;</link>,
+ <function>is_bool</function>,
<function>is_numeric</function>,
<function>is_float</function>,
<function>is_int</function>,