Re: RFC: blank() Function as a Complement to empty()
| From: | Rob Landers | Date: | Sat, 05 Apr 2025 19:18:41 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: RFC: blank() Function as a Complement to empty() | ||
| References: | 1 2 3 4 5 | Groups: | php.internals |
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On Sat, Apr 5, 2025, at 21:10, Bilge wrote:
> On 05/04/2025 19:41, Rob Landers wrote:
>> empty() has very many uses.
> That is exactly the same as saying
== has many uses. It does.
> So many uses that it's useless. Its semantics are nonsense.
>>
>> if (isset($var) && $varl != false) {
>> foo($bool);
>> }
>>
> >$varl != false
>
> You should never be doing this.
>
>
> Cheers,
> Bilge
>
Heh, to quote a great movie: That's just like, your opinion, man. In all seriousness, there are
quite a number of uses for ==, especially because we don't have operators on objects, nor do we
have value objects. Sometimes, equality isn't based on identity, but on value:
https://3v4l.org/rRMNR
— Rob