Re: New RFC : empty() function

> I have posted a new RFC at this link > https://wiki.php.net/rfc/empty_function > where I suggested some improvements to the standard built-in empty() > function and provided a number of examples. Is your "is_empty()" function equivalent to something like: function is_empty($param = null) { return empty($param) && $param !== false && $param !== 0 && $param !== 0.0; } If so, that might actually be kinda nice? I was looking for something like that the other day. Regardless, I wouldn't do the BC-break; I'd be more inclined to (very begrudgingly) leave empty() and warn against its use, and have is_empty() as a new thing. Maybe for some future deprecation or removal? I also do like the idea that someone else mentioned here about being able to possibly start to get away from @'ing variables with a solution like this. -B.