Re: the function of the "@" symbol?

From: Date: Sat, 08 Nov 2003 21:32:05 +0000
Subject: Re: the function of the "@" symbol?
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Wouter van Vliet wrote:
To me .. This looks more like a line of perl code. I am familiar with the @ sign to kindly ask a function not to give any errors to a function. But can it really be used like this on vars? What would it suppress, the "notice: undefined variable $first on line 44" notification?
Probably
Funny..
Not really, considering those kinds of notices are what can prevent some hour-long headscratching trying to figure out why a piece of code isn't working when $name was typed as $names. -- Burhan Khalid phplist[at]meidomus[dot]com http://www.meidomus.com ----------------------- "Documentation is like sex: when it is good, it is very, very good; and when it is bad, it is better than nothing."

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