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Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2017 17:33:26 -0400
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To: Andreas Hennings <andreas@dqxtech.net>
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	Dan Ackroyd <danack@basereality.com>, devnuhl@gmail.com
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC][DISCUSSION] Allow default value in list() syntax
From: pollita@php.net (Sara Golemon)

On Thu, Aug 10, 2017 at 5:21 PM, Andreas Hennings <andreas@dqxtech.net> wrote:
> I found this RFC, describing a feature I wanted for a long time:
> https://wiki.php.net/rfc/list_default_value
> https://marc.info/?l=php-internals&m=144707619509724
>
> I regularly want this kind of feature when unpacking a string with explode():
>
> list($prefix, $suffix = NULL) = explode(':', $string);
> if (NULL !== $suffix) {
>   ...
> }
>
Agreed. This comes up for me every time I want to parse a text file
(including about 30 minutes ago, as it happens).

+1

-Sara