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

Hello Robert, coalesce would be: "coalesce" "(" <var> ( "," <var> )* [ "," <expr> ] ")" and would also require heay engine patching. I am speaking of a really major change here, i already looked into what it would need month's ago. Since the operator i proposed is different from the coalesce functionality many sql developers know i see that as a definitive no. But again if you give the engine a try :-) mfG marcus Friday, July 9, 2004, 5:25:22 PM, you wrote: > On Fri, 2004-07-09 at 02:49, Marcus Boerger wrote: >> Hello Daniel, >> >> Friday, July 9, 2004, 4:33:42 AM, you wrote: >> >> > Why not just call it the issetor, or the setor operator? >> >> That's the point here. How shall we call the new operator. > I'm +1 on the "coalesce" name since I even think having the funciton > support multiple parameters and return the first set/not null value > would provide more utility to developers. > Cheers, > Rob. -- Best regards, Marcus mailto:helly@php.net