Re: feature request

Ugh, that's exactly what I didn't want to get into. If you want an array of results you're better of doing a few if() statements. It's faster and writes much nicer code. Andi At 02:08 PM 3/19/2001 -0600, Jason Greene wrote:

Perhaps isset should be branched to form a separate function to handle multi args, we could offer things in the new function such as an optional argument that passes back an array of results. -Jason ----- Original Message ----- From: "Phil Driscoll" <phil@dialsolutions.co.uk> To: "Chris Newbill" <cnewbill@onewest.net>; "Zeev Suraski" <zeev@zend.com>; "Andi Gutmans" <andi@zend.com> Cc: "PHP DEV" <php-dev@lists.php.net> Sent: Monday, March 19, 2001 1:58 PM Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] feature request My earlier post to the list doesn't seem to have arrived yet, so here it is again. You'll note from the posting that I'm not keen on the patch staying in. There are considerable efforts being made by several of us on the QA team trying to make the language more orthogonal, and this kind of ad hoc addition really doesn't help. ************

That is the only thing that I see of any real use as well. I was just humoring Andi and his idea that we would soon be requesting that

feature of

knowing which one failed the test.

I was really voting no for the original feature - just returning true or false - unless it can be shown (and implemented) that iswhatever(multiple args) will work sensibly across the board, and that implementing iswhatever(multiple args) does not waste the function namespace for a new feature - e.g. loads of php functions take optional extra arguments to modify their behaviour, but once iswhatever gained the multi argument functionality described, it would be impossible to extend the functionality in this way. Cheers, and apologies for such a long sentence ************ -- Phil Driscoll Dial Solutions +44 (0)113 294 5112 http://www.dialsolutions.com http://www.dtonline.org -- PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-dev-unsubscribe@lists.php.net For additional commands, e-mail: php-dev-help@lists.php.net To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net