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

Hi, I would suggest another name for ifsetor. In relational databases, there is a similar function, called NVL in oracle, and IFNULL in MySQL and coalesce in postgresql for testing for null, and returning a default value if the variable is null. I think ifsetor sounds a big ugly. I would suggest ifset($var, $defaultvalue), as there are historical analogies with mysql's IFNULL function, and i think ifset looks different enough from isset, thanks to the tall 'F'. $var = isset($aval) ? $aval : 0; $var = ifset($aval, 0); Thanks, John "Daniel Crookston" <daniel@hyperion-data.net> wrote in message news:007201c4655d$283125d0$6601a8c0@calhoun... > Why not just call it the issetor, or the setor operator? Also, why does > www.php.net/ternary not link to what one would assume it might link to? We > could do the same with www.php.net/setor. > > Dan > > > But the fact still remains that if we did go with > > this syntax, we could and probably should find a name for it.