Re: PHP 7.1 - Address PHPSadness #28?

On 19 September 2015 00:04:46 BST, "François Laupretre" <francois@php.net> wrote: >So, as everyone seems to have exposed his arguments, I think we need an >RFC and a patch now. Unless anyone volunteers, I'll write the patch. >Who >can write the RFC ? Robert ? I may have given the impression of stubbornness in this discussion, but I have listened to people's arguments, and am considering an RFC proposing two functions: - a syntactic sugar for array_key_exists and property_exists, maybe called hasitem(); hasitem($foo['bar']) would check $foo has the item 'bar', but hasitem($foo) would be an error - a function for checking if a variable is in the current symbol table, maybe called variable_exists to match class_exists etc; it would take a string naming the variable, e.g. variable_exists('foo'); I am worried that this will be abused, and tempted to give it a "scarier" name Importantly, neither of these should be presented as "fixing isset", since I have seen absolutely zero evidence that it is broken; the names and behaviours are designed to highlight that these are functions to be used for specific purposes. Regards, -- Rowan Collins [IMSoP]