Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:19824 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 64983 invoked by uid 1010); 29 Oct 2005 21:08:30 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 64967 invoked from network); 29 Oct 2005 21:08:30 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 29 Oct 2005 21:08:30 -0000 X-Host-Fingerprint: 69.12.155.130 69-12-155-130.dsl.static.sonic.net Linux 2.4/2.6 Received: from ([69.12.155.130:1978] helo=pigeon.alphaweb.net) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.0 beta r(6323M)) with SMTP id E9/0E-02082-DC4E3634 for ; Sat, 29 Oct 2005 17:08:30 -0400 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lighthammer) by pigeon.alphaweb.net with smtp (Exim 4.10) id 1EVxC6-0001bp-00 for internals@lists.php.net; Sat, 29 Oct 2005 13:20:50 -0700 Message-ID: <000e01c5dccc$e81f9470$6c051fac@lighthammer> To: References: <4362C5F4.8090004@safesearching.com> <4e36d31d0510281847m3f54c70dy8b2a0679fa3c6cec@mail.gmail.com> <4362DFAB.1090701@safesearching.com> <43630958.4060406@php.net> Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2005 14:07:37 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2180 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180 Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] what happened to that new isset() like language From: pollita@php.net ("Sara Golemon") >> Evaluating an idea based on it's syntactic similarities to other >> languages is complete and utter nonsense. It has nothing to with being >> like language Xyz. It has to do with familiarity to language constructs. >> One already understands the idea of 'this || that'. It's certainly > > I'll throw the water on this one: > > $c = 0; > $a = 1; > var_dump($c || $a); > ?> > > Changing true into false consitutes a rather severe BC break :). > How about ||| and |||= ?