Re: Deprecation of the Error Control Operator (@ symbol)

Hi! > $counts[$item] ?? $counts[$item] = 1 ?? $counts[$item]++; This looks completely unreadable and I do not think it works: https://3v4l.org/PlAHH Seems to leave $counts as 1 always. But even if it didn't, I would never pass that on code review - it is very hard to understand what's going on and it is incredibly easy to break it. Doing such stuff is definitely not the solution, if you hate @, then if() is way better, at least it's clear. > $item = new StdClass; > @$counts[$item] = "This is a bad use of error suppression."; > > There is no insertion, because arrays don't support object keys. The > operation completly failed and so there should be an exception. No, there should not. If somebody tries to count garbage, I just don't want to count it. I don't care about it, it's garbage. > Currently that code fails silently. And that is exactly what I want it to do. Sometimes silent failure is *good*, I don't want to know about every little thing that could go wrong, I just want what's right to be done. Of course, your intent may be the opposite - but that's exactly the point, there's more than one use case. -- Stas Malyshev smalyshev@gmail.com