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Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2019 18:23:52 -0500
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To: Ken Stanley <dohpaz@gmail.com>
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	PHP internals <internals@lists.php.net>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] anti-coalescing-operator
From: pollita@php.net (Sara Golemon)

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On Thu, Oct 24, 2019 at 4:55 PM Ken Stanley <dohpaz@gmail.com> wrote:

> > isset($_SERVER['fname']) && $user->setName($_SERVER['fname']);
> >
> > Will return boolean.
> >
>
> Just testing the waters: Is there any appetite to have AND and OR behave
more like Pythons operator?
Instead of now:
(a or b) => bool(true) if either of a or b are true
(a and b) =>  bool(true) is either of a or b are true

Behave as:
(a or b) => Value of a if true, b if a is not true but b is, bool(false)
otherwise.
(a and b) => Value of b if both are true, bool(false) otherwise.

Coincidentally, this change to T_LOGICAL_AND would server OP's purpose.

I'll tell ya, I'm leaning "No" because BC, but at the same time, AND/OR
seem to be underutilized constructs and I *suspect* (having done zero
research), that most existing uses would yield the same result as they do
now.

-Sara

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