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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Unifying logical operators
From: larry@garfieldtech.com (Larry Garfield)

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On Tuesday, July 10, 2018 6:09:22 AM CDT Christoph M. Becker wrote:
> On 10.07.2018 at 11:01, Rowan Collins wrote:
> > While I've not seen it used much in PHP code, the "do this or die" idiom
> > is
> > common in Perl (which also has post-fix "if" and "unless" modifiers, so
> > those are a different feature again).
>=20
> It seems to me the =E2=80=9Cdo this or die=E2=80=9D idiom at least has be=
en very common
> in PHP.  There may still be some occurences in the manual proper, and
> definitely there are occurences in user contributed notes.

"do() or die()" code is/was very common in example code, tutorials, and oth=
er=20
intro material because it means you don't need to think about error handlin=
g.

I haven't seen it in actual production code in about 14 yeas, I think, and=
=20
anyone who tried submitting it would get their patch rejected so hard it wo=
uld=20
make their head spin.  It's a terrible pattern outside of fly-by-night=20
tutorials.

=2D-Larry Garfield
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