Re: not_null function
| From: | Andrea Faulds | Date: | Sat, 05 Jul 2014 08:12:20 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: not_null function | ||
| Groups: | php.internals | ||
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> On July 5, 2014 at 9:05 AM Pierre Joye <pierre.php@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Jul 5, 2014 9:43 AM, "Tjerk Meesters" <tjerk.me esters a gmail.com>
> wrote:
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> > Obviously spoke to soon ... what I've written there is basically an ugly
> >
!isset($var).
> >
>
> Totally fail to see what is ugly with is set or the difference with
> exists(). The latter, in the context of php (even more with phpng) makes
> little sense.
>
> Besides that, I am not sure what is the goal of this thread. Adding aliases
> to copy cat <some language>?
Can we please stop this ridiculous bikeshedding? It is incredible this thread
has gone on for so long. PHP has idiosyncracies, but frankly, the is_null
function is hardly the worst of them and I see nothing useful resulting from
this discussion.
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Andrea Faulds
http://ajf.me/