Re: Nullsafe
| From: | Benjamin Morel | Date: | Tue, 03 Nov 2020 16:48:12 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Nullsafe | ||
| References: | 1 | Groups: | php.internals |
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On Tue, 3 Nov 2020 at 17:38, Eugene Sidelnyk <zsidelnik@gmail.com> wrote:
> I am wondering why don't we use ordinary
-> operator
> with safe null
> handling?
Hi,
- changing the current behaviour of -> would be a huge BC break
- and if we need another reason, there are many situations where you do
want to fail early if the left operand is null, so the current operator is
a good fit
— Benjamin