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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] what happened to that new isset() like language 
From: james@safesearching.com (James Crumpton)

Andi Gutmans wrote:
 > I don't think it's a matter of giving the engine a try. I think we first need
 > to make a decision what the best way to go is and then we can discuss
 > implementation if/what is possible. Once 5.0.0 is out I'm going to have more
 > time look into this.

What's the word on this?

Some of the names given were:
issetor
ifsetor
ifset
ifnull
coalesce

I'm actually kind of partial to:

$a = $foo || $bar;
$a = $foo || $bar || $xyz || $etc;

Or better yet (or maybe in addition too):

$a['foo'] ||= 'bar'; // if set do nothing, otherwise assign 'bar'


-james