Re: PHP 5.1

Hello Zeev, Thursday, June 16, 2005, 7:12:49 PM, you wrote: > Marcus, > If you read what I said in my emails on this topic, it's clear that I know > that this is the case. As I said, this approach has the side effect of > creating an empty placeholder if the variable to be checked doesn't > exist. I also said that I think it would usually make more sense to simply > assign the variable with the wanted value, instead of just returning that > value, so that you don't have to clutter your code with ifsetor()'s or > whatever each coder ends up calling this (sometimes it may not be > desirable, obviously, but I assume it would be more often than not). > At the end of the day, this is really a nuance. Fact is that it's possible > to implement ifsetor() functionality today in userland. We cannot go > around implementing a new construct for every possible thing that someone > might need. This should be implemented in userland, even if it has a small > side effect. It gives you the full power of doing whatever you want, > instead of being limited to what a low level construct does. Fact is it's not. Try it and show it here. We wouldn't discuss it if it was possible. marcus