Re: what happened to that new isset() like language

If we're going to add a new language construct I believe that it should be readable and not some perl-like thingie. SQL has coalesce() functions which returns returns first non-null argument of any number of arguments. PHP version could return a first set argument: $lang = coalesce($_COOKIE['lang'], $user_settings['lang'], 'en'); It shouldn't be too difficult to tell what this one does. Edin Sebastian wrote:

Wow, it'll be just like perl! this is so great. On 10/28/05, James Crumpton <james@safesearching.com> wrote:

Andi Gutmans wrote:

I don't think it's a matter of giving the engine a try. I think we first need to make a decision what the best way to go is and then we can discuss implementation if/what is possible. Once 5.0.0 is out I'm going to have more time look into this.

What's the word on this? Some of the names given were: issetor ifsetor ifset ifnull coalesce I'm actually kind of partial to: $a = $foo || $bar; $a = $foo || $bar || $xyz || $etc; Or better yet (or maybe in addition too): $a['foo'] ||= 'bar'; // if set do nothing, otherwise assign 'bar' -james -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

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