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Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2020 21:18:20 +0200
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Subject: Fwd: [PHP-DEV] Nullsafe
From: zsidelnik@gmail.com (Eugene Sidelnyk)

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From: Eugene Sidelnyk <zsidelnik@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Nov 3, 2020 at 7:08 PM
Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Nullsafe
To: Benjamin Morel <benjamin.morel@gmail.com>


But currently working code doesn't fail with NullPointerException?
Otherwise it would not be a working code.
Early fail will be when we try return / pass anywhere this value

On Tue, Nov 3, 2020, 6:48 PM Benjamin Morel <benjamin.morel@gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Tue, 3 Nov 2020 at 17:38, Eugene Sidelnyk <zsidelnik@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I am wondering why don't we use ordinary `->` operator with safe null
>> handling?
>
>
> Hi,
>
> - changing the current behaviour of `->` would be a huge BC break
> - and if we need another reason, there are many situations where you do
> want to fail early if the left operand is null, so the current operator i=
s
> a good fit
>
> =E2=80=94 Benjamin
>

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