[cldrope]

This stuff happened over 2 years ago, and what he was referring to was an ANTICIPATED change sir.

Not one he'd run into at the time, since it had yet to be changed to something random and unexpected.

[batista]

Relying on a brain damaged non documented edge case was unanticipated, not the change --which had also been in beta before release.

What kind of programmer passes "" and null on a function such as this and expects ....zero in return?

And what kind of programmer does it --as he admits-- "all around the place"?

If you give right to this guy, that's a very very short and accurate interview question --no hire.

[cldrope]

You mistake my use of anticipated. I agree with you, I meant the change was anticipated as in "It was expected to happen". It was in the cards to happen eventually, whether it was intelligent or not.

Returning null in the math library at all just seems counter-intuitive.