Re: what happened to that new isset() like language

From: Date: Thu, 08 Jul 2004 23:15:43 +0000
Subject: Re: what happened to that new isset() like language
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The original reason that I asked for this functionality was to make it significantly easier to work with E_ALL error reporting. When I say easier, I mean by reducing duplicate code. //This $foo = (integer) ifsetor($_POST['foo'], 0); //Instead of $foo = (integer) (isset($_POST['foo']) ? $_POST['foo'] : 0); It was also to be useful for accessing array elements that may or may not be there. I strongly agree with Ramsus that ?: is far to close to the ternary operator and would prove to be *highly* confusing to beginners. Marcus made an excellent point about the 2 versions of the function: 1) $a = ifsetor($b) 2) $a = ifsetor($b, NULL) By the way, I'm not stuck on ifsetor() as a name, but a) the name should be short and clear b) the construct must be called with function like syntax Marc, I must ask, why are you so opposed to the function() syntax? There has been quite a few reasons stated against the operator syntax, but I haven't heard any reason why we should not go with the function() syntax? Sincerely, Jason Garber

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