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Doc Bug #54746 suggestion for rand() prototype
Submitted: 2011-05-16 16:05 UTC Modified: 2011-07-02 04:11 UTC
From: gwarnants at gmail dot com Assigned:
Status: Wont fix Package: Documentation problem
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 [2011-05-16 16:05 UTC] gwarnants at gmail dot com 
Description:
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From manual page: http://www.php.net/function.rand#Description
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Current prototype of rand() function is :

int rand ( void )
int rand ( int $min , int $max )

I think it should be better to write a single prototype indicating optional parameters like this :

int rand ( [int $min, int $max] )

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 [2011-05-16 16:23 UTC] rquadling@php.net 
To be able to render that, the underlying XML needs to be able to describe it.

This particular request was in DocBook V5.1 
(http://www.docbook.org/tdg51/en/html/group.methodparam.html)

I don't think that this is officially released yet.

So, for the time being, 2 prototypes is the most accurate way that can be used 
to describe the arguments.
 [2011-07-02 04:11 UTC] frozenfire@php.net
-Status: Open +Status: Wont fix
 
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