Just be sure that if it used to return -1 that you leave a note
in the docs when it changed to false.  PHP is open source, 
coders often times use their own personal preference on stuff 
like this.  I'm not sure if php-dev encourages use of boolean 
false or not.  Sometimes it's NULL, 0, -1, or false.  I guess
this is why loose == is more popular than strict === :)

Each function documents this individually, nowhere in the docs
does it say false is always returned on failure.  I agree it
would be nice to be more consistant in this regard.  But,
breaking BC is no fun either.

Regards,
Philip




On Fri, 8 Nov 2002, Maxim Maletsky wrote:

> 
> Just because I was on it, I grep'ed my local tree over and over looking
> for wrong "-1" returns.  And so I found more.
> 
> Here is a little snapshot for every function I found. Tell me what you
> think so I go and fix those.
[snip]


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