Re: New Operator

Jason Garber wrote: > Hello internals, > > Since nobody could seem to agree on a language construct for > accessing a variable that you don't know exists (ifsetor), > I would like to propose a simpler approach. > > It returns the value of the passed variable, or NULL if the variable > does not exist. > > ifset($some_array['some-key-you-are-not-sure-exists']); IMHO, this wouldn't solve the problem. The problem is that we need default values, not NULL. Sometimes you may want NULL sometimes you may not. > > This E_STRICT ternary pain-in-the-ass expression is constantly at > the top of every PHP script I write: > > $ConfirmCode = (isset($_GET['ConfirmCode']) ? $_GET['ConfirmCode'] : > ''); I agree that this is really a PITA, but until we get an operator for this, we should stuck on the ternary.