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Doc Bug #54768 Bad function prototype var_dump()
Submitted: 2011-05-17 10:39 UTC Modified: 2011-06-07 13:51 UTC
From: gwarnants at gmail dot com Assigned: salathe (profile)
Status: Closed Package: Documentation problem
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 [2011-05-17 10:39 UTC] gwarnants at gmail dot com 
Description:
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From manual page: http://www.php.net/function.var-dump#Description
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I think prototype of this variable-length argument list function is badly written. If you look at similar functions, you will see extra parameters written like this :

array list ( mixed $varname [, mixed $... ] )

so I think prototype of var_dump should become

void var_dump ( mixed $expression [, mixed $... ] )

Regards,
Geoffray

Expected result:
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void var_dump ( mixed $expression [, mixed $... ] )

Actual result:
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void var_dump ( mixed $expression [, mixed $expression [, $... ]] )

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 [2011-05-17 23:59 UTC] salathe@php.net 
Automatic comment from SVN on behalf of salathe
Revision: http://svn.php.net/viewvc/?view=revision&revision=311159
Log: tidy var_dump() prototype (doc #54768)
 [2011-05-18 00:00 UTC] salathe@php.net
-Status: Open +Status: Closed -Assigned To: +Assigned To: salathe
 [2011-05-18 00:00 UTC] salathe@php.net 
This bug has been fixed in the documentation's XML sources. Since the
online and downloadable versions of the documentation need some time
to get updated, we would like to ask you to be a bit patient.

Thank you for the report, and for helping us make our documentation better.
 [2011-06-07 10:45 UTC] salathe@php.net 
Automatic comment from SVN on behalf of salathe
Revision: http://svn.php.net/viewvc/?view=revision&revision=311886
Log: type hint for $... param in isset/var_dump (doc #54768)
 [2011-06-07 12:15 UTC] gwarnants at gmail dot com 
Hello, it seems not to be correctly fixed, see my duplicate bug report #55006

Regards,
Geoffray

Expected result:
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void var_dump ( mixed $expression [, mixed $... ] )

Actual result:
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void var_dump ( mixed $expression [, $... ] )
 [2011-06-07 12:54 UTC] salathe@php.net 
Today's earlier commit (r311886) changes the output to your expected result.
 [2011-06-07 13:16 UTC] gwarnants at gmail dot com 
Ok but the same problem also occurs in other translations, perhaps in all translations except english :

- french
- brazilian
- japanese
- german
- spanish
- turkish
- ...

Regards,
Geoffray
 [2011-06-07 13:51 UTC] salathe@php.net 
The translators do not react to English documentation changes within seconds. 
There will be some time lag (days, weeks, months) between English changes and 
other languages reflecting those changes, if at all.
 
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