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> silently take a null instead of a string Oh, so you _haven't_ used any of the recent versions of PHP, then. You're just talking shit with no actual recent ex
by samuellevy 4y ago
> silently take a null instead of a string
Oh, so you _haven't_ used any of the recent versions of PHP, then. You're just talking shit with no actual recent experience. Gotcha. Well, thanks for your input.
- zelphirkalt 4y agoLook what I got here for you: docker run -it php:8.0 bash # php -a Interactive shell substr("abcdef", 3); // no result -- Ah right, PHP does things differently than other almost every other language that has a REPL and I have to echo a value, which was just returned, even on the REPL ... php > echo substr("", 3); -- Silently hiding the error. Idiocy. php > echo substr(null, 3); -- Silently hiding the error. Idiocy. php > echo substr("abcdef", 3); def Who is shit talking now? Are you suggesting, that all this is normal and OK? Nothing is fixed. It's still badly designed and probably will remain shitty like that, until PHP programmers finally realize, that this needs to be properly fixed. EDIT: Of course the docs also do not mention this to happen at all and tell you, that the first argument must be a string. So I guess that means, that in PHP terms, null is a string. Great for type safety!