php5 and the change of array_merge

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Originally Posted by sabret00the

why do i always find the worst jokes so hilarious.

I just have this sick sense of humor and sitting here alone I amuse myself by pointing out the obvious.

If you are a C programmer it might be funny.

No ill intent meant. Just amusing myself.

To be more on topic while I'm having fun, this is usually a hot topic, talking about declaring variables. I found alot of debate on the subject, some very amusing, when after using C for a long time, I had a need to mod some Visual Basic code.

Well off I went and got vB6 and a book. Installed it and did some set up. Now if you have a C background, you can't help yourself, you declare variables, there's no way around it. So I set up the code to not allow dynamic declaration of variables and attemped a complie. It did nothing but complain. Nothing was declared. So to mod this huge piece of code I just removed the statement that made the compiler force declarations. And I was off to delveoping all the bad habits C programmers joke about.

Now I use php, same thing, back to bad habits. Opps, I need a variable here and bam, there it is. I do try to init variables usually, but If you look at any code I wrote, I'm inconsistant. SO part of the amusment above was on myself, I know better and don't do it.

So now php 5 seems to need Array() declared/initialized for this function to accept them. Are we going to declarations in php as a whole? Isn't there a performance benefit to delcaration and proper address space allocated without the compiler having to dynamically sort out types?

I don't hang out at php.net or anywhere that discusses such things, so this thread has sparked my curiousity.