Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:11030 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 30902 invoked by uid 1010); 9 Jul 2004 15:25:26 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 30750 invoked from network); 9 Jul 2004 15:25:24 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO blobule.suds) (66.11.170.154) by pb1.pair.com with SMTP; 9 Jul 2004 15:25:24 -0000 Received: by blobule.suds (Postfix, from userid 501) id 045B32F727; Fri, 9 Jul 2004 11:25:23 -0400 (EDT) To: Marcus Boerger Cc: Daniel Crookston , internals@lists.php.net In-Reply-To: <1098364181.20040709084904@marcus-boerger.de> References: <5.1.0.14.0.20040707203931.02fa6200@mail.ionzoft.com> <40ED64A0.7050305@cschneid.com> <20040708151952.92187.qmail@pb1.pair.com> <20040708215205.23281.qmail@pb1.pair.com> <20040708222005.4329.qmail@pb1.pair.com> <20040708233326.73283.qmail@pb1.pair.com> <20040708235341.42767.qmail@pb1.pair.com> <007201c4655d$283125d0$6601a8c0@calhoun> <1098364181.20040709084904@marcus-boerger.de> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.8-3mdk Date: 09 Jul 2004 11:25:22 -0400 Message-ID: <1089386722.26206.2.camel@blobule.suds> Mime-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] what happened to that new isset() like language From: robert@interjinn.com (Robert Cummings) On Fri, 2004-07-09 at 02:49, Marcus Boerger wrote: > Hello Daniel, > > Friday, July 9, 2004, 4:33:42 AM, you wrote: > > > Why not just call it the issetor, or the setor operator? > > That's the point here. How shall we call the new operator. I'm +1 on the "coalesce" name since I even think having the funciton support multiple parameters and return the first set/not null value would provide more utility to developers. Cheers, Rob. -- .------------------------------------------------------------. | InterJinn Application Framework - http://www.interjinn.com | :------------------------------------------------------------: | An application and templating framework for PHP. Boasting | | a powerful, scalable system for accessing system services | | such as forms, properties, sessions, and caches. InterJinn | | also provides an extremely flexible architecture for | | creating re-usable components quickly and easily. | `------------------------------------------------------------'