On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 12:26 AM, Alex Aulbach <[email protected]>wrote:
> 2012/8/2 Andrew Faulds <[email protected]>:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Also in JavaScript if in strict mode. Legacy non-strict mode JS doesn't
> cause an error though.
> >
> > JS's || operator supresses this error though, which is great for e.g. x
> = x || new Object();
>
> Could be cool to make this in PHP with the 'or' operator (or not ||)...
> Which brings us back to the subject...
>
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most/some of the ideas here were brought up before, there is a proposal and
a nice history of mailing list discussions (albeit not up-to-date) at
https://wiki.php.net/rfc/ifsetor
personally I would really like an ifsetor/coelesce kind of language
construct.
accepts any number of arguments, won't trigger notice on unset variables,
and returns the first non-null argument.
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