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Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2018 20:21:18 +0100
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Unifying logical operators
From: rowan.collins@gmail.com (Rowan Collins)

On 10/07/2018 20:11, Kalle Sommer Nielsen wrote:
> Den tir. 10. jul. 2018 kl. 21.08 skrev David Rodrigues <david.proweb@gmail.com>:
>> I think that "or" could be removed if PHP could supports inline conditionals like:
>>
>> die() if !$connected;
>> throw Exception() if fail();
>> $x = $y if (z() && w());
>>
>> Or "when": die() when !$connected;
>>
>> It seems more clear than $connected or die().
> I in fact find that more unreadable as you first got to dig through
> the error handling before you actually get to the logic that triggered
> it.


A more readable syntax, if we were designing from scratch, might be to 
look at SmallTalk, where ifTrue and ifFalse are methods on the boolean 
class, so can appear post-fix after any boolean, giving you something like:

$connected ifFalse: die();


Regards,

-- 
Rowan Collins
[IMSoP]