Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:11060 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 16034 invoked by uid 1010); 10 Jul 2004 07:16:48 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 15960 invoked from network); 10 Jul 2004 07:16:47 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO milton.schell.de) (217.160.72.35) by pb1.pair.com with SMTP; 10 Jul 2004 07:16:47 -0000 Received: (qmail 11872 invoked by uid 501); 10 Jul 2004 07:16:47 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO 27.0.0.10.in-addr.arpa) (217.233.31.158) by kdserv.de with SMTP; 10 Jul 2004 07:16:47 -0000 Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2004 09:16:46 +0200 (CEST) X-X-Sender: sas@localhost To: Rasmus Lerdorf cc: Marc Richards , internals@lists.php.net In-Reply-To: Message-ID: 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 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] what happened to that new isset() like language From: sascha@schumann.cx (Sascha Schumann) On Fri, 9 Jul 2004, 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". This rule would favor the "a ? : b" notation - which has been supported by GCC for at least five years. - Sascha