Re: Unifying logical operators
| From: | Larry Garfield | Date: | Tue, 10 Jul 2018 18:22:09 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Unifying logical operators | ||
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On Tuesday, July 10, 2018 6:09:22 AM CDT Christoph M. Becker wrote:
> On 10.07.2018 at 11:01, Rowan Collins wrote:
> > While I've not seen it used much in PHP code, the "do this or die" idiom
> > is
> > common in Perl (which also has post-fix "if" and "unless" modifiers,
> > so
> > those are a different feature again).
>
> It seems to me the “do this or die” idiom at least has been very common
> in PHP. There may still be some occurences in the manual proper, and
> definitely there are occurences in user contributed notes.
"do() or die()" code is/was very common in example code, tutorials, and other
intro material because it means you don't need to think about error handling.
I haven't seen it in actual production code in about 14 yeas, I think, and
anyone who tried submitting it would get their patch rejected so hard it would
make their head spin. It's a terrible pattern outside of fly-by-night
tutorials.
--Larry Garfield
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