Re: PROPOSAL: "unless" control structure

From: Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2003 18:47:41 +0000
Subject: Re: PROPOSAL: "unless" control structure
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On Sun, Jan 12, 2003 at 12:53:12PM -0600, Michael Sims wrote: > My apologies if this has been brought up before, but I searched the > archives and couldn't find a reference to it. > > I'm sure this is the sort of thing that would have already been > implemented if there was any desire for it among the developers, but I > was wondering if anyone had considered adding support for an "unless" > control structure, similar to the one Perl has. I personally find it > much more logical in certain cases. While it would no doubt be easy to implement, I would consider it unnecessary syntactic sugar. Besides, it actually ends up using _more_ characters ("unless(":7, "if(!":4) in the long run. -- Jon Parise (jon@php.net) :: The PHP Project (http://www.php.net/)

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