Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:11037 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 85831 invoked by uid 1010); 9 Jul 2004 18:56:22 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 85807 invoked from network); 9 Jul 2004 18:56:22 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.omniti.com) (66.80.117.3) by pb1.pair.com with SMTP; 9 Jul 2004 18:56:22 -0000 Received: from ([66.80.117.2:53587]) by mail.omniti.com (ecelerity HEAD) with SMTP id E5/B2-07803-65AEEE04; Fri, 09 Jul 2004 14:56:25 -0400 In-Reply-To: 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v618) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-ID: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Marc Richards , internals@lists.php.net Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2004 14:56:15 -0400 To: Rasmus Lerdorf X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.618) Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] what happened to that new isset() like language From: george@omniti.com (George Schlossnagle) On Jul 9, 2004, at 2:55 PM, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: > On Thu, 8 Jul 2004, Marc Richards wrote: >> Are you saying PHP will never introduce an operator that doesn't >> already >> exist in a large number of other languages? > > That's a good rule. Over the 10 years of PHP development we have > followed > this with the only exception being the === operators for checking for > "really equal". And you could make a case for similar operators existing in perl (eq vs ==, which are of course slightly different). George