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

On Fri, 2004-07-09 at 19:54, Marcus Boerger wrote: > 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 :-) Sorry, I thought I was following the thread quite thoroughly, but I missed the part until earlier today where the functionality would involve shortcutting expression evaluation if a non-null or set value was found. Obviously (I think -- correct me if I'm wrong) without the shortcutting feature, implementation would be simplistic. Cheers, Rob. -- .------------------------------------------------------------. | InterJinn Application Framework - http://www.interjinn.com | :------------------------------------------------------------: | An application and templating framework for PHP. Boasting | | a powerful, scalable system for accessing system services | | such as forms, properties, sessions, and caches. InterJinn | | also provides an extremely flexible architecture for | | creating re-usable components quickly and easily. | `------------------------------------------------------------'