Re: 5.4's New De-referencing plus assignment

On 12/02/2011 08:50 AM, Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote: > if (!(($validator = new SomeValidator())->isValid($value))) { > // Validation failed, get messages... > $view->assign('errors' => $validator->getMessages()); > return $view->render('error'); > } > // validation passed, do something... > > Yes, this could be written as follows: > > $validator = new SomeValidator(); > if (!$validator->isValid($value)) { > // ... > } > // ... > > However, I can see some folks not really wanting that variable > declaration if they won't be using it outside the conditional. But $validator is still going to be defined regardless of the return value of isValid() so it is going to be set outside the conditional. -Rasmus