Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:19833 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 1201 invoked by uid 1010); 29 Oct 2005 22:58:57 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 1180 invoked from network); 29 Oct 2005 22:58:57 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 29 Oct 2005 22:58:57 -0000 X-Host-Fingerprint: 64.233.162.201 zproxy.gmail.com Linux 2.4/2.6 Received: from ([64.233.162.201:63745] helo=zproxy.gmail.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.0 beta r(6323M)) with SMTP id A9/62-02082-0BEF3634 for ; Sat, 29 Oct 2005 18:58:56 -0400 Received: by zproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id q3so649679nzb for ; Sat, 29 Oct 2005 15:58:52 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=Lw5GKTaS8pExQcZIXzpGuu2dzXrm/waWCp6nKFCBLv0fez+hcDxwfZKtWkk0Dkm0fIaLslYg9lAE7fQ2G8P0aiSaexzbGRqav/pjmW0ugQWEVvWbvQphaYmcqBBwXTBfRaFGpnod4iCav07v/yrgmtJ9WG+gV2pFRstqIuoNeYE= Received: by 10.64.210.16 with SMTP id i16mr423817qbg; Sat, 29 Oct 2005 15:58:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.64.183.1 with HTTP; Sat, 29 Oct 2005 15:58:52 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4e36d31d0510291558i6299bddam4d76eaa49adeeb8e@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2005 15:58:52 -0700 To: Greg Beaver Cc: internals@lists.php.net In-Reply-To: <4363F000.1030902@php.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <4362C5F4.8090004@safesearching.com> <4e36d31d0510281847m3f54c70dy8b2a0679fa3c6cec@mail.gmail.com> <4362DFAB.1090701@safesearching.com> <43630958.4060406@php.net> <000e01c5dccc$e81f9470$6c051fac@lighthammer> <4363F000.1030902@php.net> Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] what happened to that new isset() like language From: buddhahead@gmail.com (Sebastian) Given that // is not acceptable, as others sarcastically reminded me, and that this introduces new sytax, I think it might be best just to add more functions. I don't think something like > $d =3D first-existing: $a, $b, $c; is any better than first_existing($a, $b, $c), and the former happens at the expensive of inconsistency and a higher learning curve.