Re: Re: [PHP-DEV] New construct discussion Summary (was: what happened to that new isset() like language construct)

On Sun, 11 Jul 2004 09:43:51 -0700 (PDT), Rasmus Lerdorf <rasmus@php.net> wrote: > On Sun, 11 Jul 2004, Marcus Boerger wrote: > > > $a = ifsetor($_GET['index'], $default); > > ifsetor() sounds a bit cumbersome to me. > > Some other suggestions: > > $a = is($_GET['index'], $default); > > $a = isor($_GET['index'], $default); > > $a = valid($_GET['index'], $default); I don't like valid, because that implies checks that aren't there (some sort of sanitizing). > > $a = value($_GET['index'], $default); > all of the other ones sound good - i like value() the best. -sterling