Re: New construct discussion Summary

Not meaning to add more confusion, but Coldfusion (yes yes, please keep laughter to a minimum) has had a similar function since the beginning (IIRC). it's <cfparam ... > http://livedocs.macromedia.com/coldfusion/6.1/htmldocs/tags-b13.htm Perhaps a php function "param(...)" ? Even though it's not always a request parameter we'll (developers) be checking, this will be true in most cases. S [the following heavily edited:]

These include: ifset(), ifelse(), ifexists() nvl(), ifnull() and coalesce() have been proposed because of This currently leaves us with a hand full of names, including: ifsetor(), firstset(), getval()/getvalue()/get_value()

fix() safe_init() discern() concretize() php_variable_quantum_waveform_collapse() $a = is($_GET['index'], $default); $a = isor($_GET['index'], $default); $a = valid($_GET['index'], $default); $a = value($_GET['index'], $default);