Re: [RFC] Default expression

On Sat, Aug 24, 2024, at 18:49, Bilge wrote: > Hi gang, > > New RFC just dropped: > https://wiki.php.net/rfc/default_expression. I > think some of you might enjoy this one. Hit me with any feedback. > > This one already comes complete with working implementation that I've > been cooking for a little while. Considering I don't know C or PHP > internals, one might think implementing this feature would be > prohibitively difficult, but considering the amount of help and guidance > I received from Ilija, Bob and others, it would be truer to say it would > have been more difficult to fail! Huge thanks to them. > > Cheers, > Bilge > This is pretty awesome! I see this as some syntax sugar, to be honest: > as soon as two or more nullable arguments are involved I'm not sure what you mean here. I use this method all the time :) much to the chagrin of some of my coworkers. function stuff($foo = 'bar', $baz = 'world'); stuff(...[ ...($foo ? ['foo' => $foo] : []), ...($baz ? ['baz' => $baz] : [])]); Having this would be a lot less verbose. — Rob