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That's what the above comment was referring to when saying people to things like:

  call_user_func_array($function, ['length' => $n, 'foo' => $bar, ...]);

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> and basically nobody does that anyway.

That's it, I'm officially a nobody :-)

> leaves it up to the called function to sanity-check the input types instead of letting the compiler do it, and basically nobody does that anyway.

You don’t check the input types?

You're reading the sentence incorrectly: "and basically nobody does that anyway", means the preceding type checking argument you refer to is moot. So I insist, I am a nobody (according to this definition).

Btw I don't always sanity check the parameters, mostly at the system edges only.

Not in get-it-done, hackish scripts.

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