Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:11093 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 77038 invoked by uid 1010); 11 Jul 2004 18:13:11 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 77010 invoked from network); 11 Jul 2004 18:13:11 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mproxy.gmail.com) (216.239.56.250) by pb1.pair.com with SMTP; 11 Jul 2004 18:13:11 -0000 Received: by mproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id q44so9709354cwc for ; Sun, 11 Jul 2004 11:13:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.11.116.39 with SMTP id o39mr64426cwc; Sun, 11 Jul 2004 11:13:07 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <24e5f3b704071111132836400e@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2004 11:13:07 -0700 Reply-To: sterling@apache.org To: Rasmus Lerdorf Cc: Marcus Boerger , internals@lists.php.net In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <20040708002654.7442.qmail@pb1.pair.com> <20040711024958.14248.qmail@pb1.pair.com> <32264751.20040711161552@marcus-boerger.de> Subject: Re: Re: [PHP-DEV] New construct discussion Summary (was: what happened to that new isset() like language construct) From: sterling.hughes@gmail.com (Sterling Hughes) On Sun, 11 Jul 2004 09:43:51 -0700 (PDT), Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: > On Sun, 11 Jul 2004, Marcus Boerger wrote: > > > $a = ifsetor($_GET['index'], $default); > > ifsetor() sounds a bit cumbersome to me. > > Some other suggestions: > > $a = is($_GET['index'], $default); > > $a = isor($_GET['index'], $default); > > $a = valid($_GET['index'], $default); I don't like valid, because that implies checks that aren't there (some sort of sanitizing). > > $a = value($_GET['index'], $default); > all of the other ones sound good - i like value() the best. -sterling