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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] what happened to that new isset() like language construct
From: contact_marcos@yahoo.es (Marc Richards)



Marcus Boerger wrote:

> 
> it would allow two versions by having the default optional:
> 
> 1) $a = ifsetor($b)
> 2) $a = ifsetor($b, NULL)
> 
> 
>>$a = $b ?: NULL;
> 
> 
> How would the operator do the second? Will it look like the
> following?
> 
>  $a = $b ?:;
> 
> I defitively don't want that.
> 

Me either.  What I am saying is that there is no need for two versions. 
  $a = $b ?: NULL; is as concise as the first version, and as explicit 
(in terms of the NULL) as the second.


Marc