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Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2023 23:11:18 +0200
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To: Brandon Jackson <brandonja991@gmail.com>
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	Levi Morrison via internals <internals@lists.php.net>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Two new functions array_first() and array_last()
From: jorg.sowa@gmail.com (Jorg Sowa)

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> Sure in many use cases undefined and null can be equivalent, but there
> are other use cases and considering the fact that php does not have a
> user level "undefined" value. It should at least attempt to not be
> ambiguous when possible. Instead of being ambiguous by default,
> requiring the user to do additional work to not be ambiguous.
>
> I do think the method is a great opportunity to avoid ambiguity,
> without a huge sacrifice on cost. As you said, throwing an exception
> would only further complicate things. Sure an empty check would get
> the job done, but again I believe it should not require such
> additional logic just to not be ambiguous.
>

Can we have ultimately a flag in the function for throwing an exception in
case of empty array?

Kind regards,
Jorg

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