Re: [RFC] unset(): return bool if the variable has existed

From: Date: Wed, 06 Mar 2013 21:40:17 +0000
Subject: Re: [RFC] unset(): return bool if the variable has existed
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On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 10:38 PM, Ferenc Kovacs <[email protected]> wrote:

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> On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 10:10 PM, Bob Weinand <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> Hi!
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>> As this seem to require a RFC, here is it:
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>> https://wiki.php.net/rfc/unset_bool
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>> Please feedback,
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>> Bob Weinand
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> unset is not a function, but a language construct, and there is at least
> one similar construct which doesn't return anything (eg. not returning
> NULL, but syntax error when used in a return context): echo
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referring to "This removes also an inconsistency: the function's return
value is void, states the docs. It is until now the only function which has
no return value." especially.

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Ferenc Kovács
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