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Subject: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Null Coalescing Assignment in Method Signature
From: dannysimkus@gmail.com (Daniel Simkus)

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Hello all,

I am writing to see if anyone is interested in an R=46C for ability to au=
tomatically coalesce nullable method parameters with the supplied default=
. It would look something like this:

function foo(=3Farray =24bar =3F=3F=3D =5B=5D) =7B

This would result in =24bar automatically converting to an array if null =
is passed, as opposed to either having to do a null check before the func=
tion call and not passing parameter at all - or alternatively having to d=
o something like:

function foo(=3Farray =24bar =3D =5B=5D) =7B
=C2=A0=C2=A0 =C2=A0=24bar =3F=3F=3D =5B=5D;


I don=E2=80=99t see this creating any BC incompatibilites and the =3F=3F=3D=
 syntax is something already in use in PHP since 7=7E

I don=E2=80=99t have any experience with C, so would ideally love it some=
one could help with the development with this, or maybe point me in the r=
ight direction.

I would also require R=46C Karma if people are interested in opening a di=
scussion about this (dansimkus)

Thank you all for your time

Regards,
Daniel Simkus


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