Re: variable_exists() patch
| From: | nicos@php.net | Date: | Thu, 14 Aug 2003 16:03:40 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: variable_exists() patch | ||
| References: | 1 2 | Groups: | php.internals |
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"Ilia Alshanetsky" <ilia@prohost.org> a écrit dans le message de
news:200308141145.38495.ilia@prohost.org...
> Do we really need this function? I see 2 ways of 'implementing' this
> functionality in PHP without having to add another function. For example:
> (isset($var) || is_null($var)) or gettype($var).
Sure its really _enough_. We can't have a function for every little script.
>
> Ilia
>
> On August 13, 2003 06:25 pm, Lars Torben Wilson wrote:
> > Hi out there,
> >
> > A few weeks ago I submitted a patch in the bug db for a
> > variable_exists() construct, which parallels the function_exists()
> > one but for variables. In short, it returns TRUE if a variable
> > exists, regardless of its value. In other words, it's an isset()
> > which doesn't care if the variable's value is NULL.
> >
> > The bug report and a link to the patch is here:
> >
> > http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=24274&edit=1
> >
> > Just mentioning it because I don't know whether it's good enough to
> > go in, but users have emailed me to ask why it hasn't been included.
> > If I've screwed up with the patch, a quick note as to what was wrong
> > would be great.
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Torben
> >
> >
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