Re: Nullsafe

Heya, On Tue, Nov 3, 2020, 17:38 Eugene Sidelnyk <zsidelnik@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, internals! > I am wondering why don't we use ordinary -> operator > with safe null > handling? Programmers will be more prone to return null values. And thus, > in most of cases ?-> will replace > ->. > Why do we need another operator, if we can implement null safe in current > operator without BC breaks? > Overall, "null safe" can be very dangerous if made the default. Here's a scenario where I'd never want "null safe" behaviour (which does anything but introducing safety): ```php $accounts->get($receiver) ->addFunds( $accounts->get($sender) ->detractFunds($amount) ); ``` In the above scenario, if the first $accounts->get() call returns null for any reason, you may actually destroy money (funds detracted, but never added to another account). The example is simplistic, but it shows that "null safe" is everything but "safe", and it must instead be used only where it absolutely makes sense to suppress null reference errors. Similar behaviour can be observed around cast operators, which are too lax for most businesses logic: https://github.com/ShittySoft/symfony-live-berlin-2018-doctrine-tutorial/pull/3#issuecomment-460441229 Safe = crashes when it should crash. >