Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:19837 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 11196 invoked by uid 1010); 29 Oct 2005 23:22:10 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 11180 invoked from network); 29 Oct 2005 23:22:10 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 29 Oct 2005 23:22:10 -0000 X-Host-Fingerprint: 69.64.38.41 bluga.net Linux 2.5 (sometimes 2.4) (4) Received: from ([69.64.38.41:35152] helo=bluga.net) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.0 beta r(6323M)) with SMTP id 88/B3-02082-22404634 for ; Sat, 29 Oct 2005 19:22:10 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by bluga.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 22CD021CAD3; Sat, 29 Oct 2005 18:23:17 -0500 (CDT) Received: from bluga.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (bluga.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 14363-10; Sat, 29 Oct 2005 18:23:17 -0500 (CDT) Received: from [192.168.0.104] (CPE-67-48-78-96.neb.res.rr.com [67.48.78.96]) by bluga.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id A527721C77F; Sat, 29 Oct 2005 18:23:16 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <43640418.3050507@chiaraquartet.net> Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2005 18:22:00 -0500 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (Windows/20050716) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Sebastian CC: internals@lists.php.net References: <4362C5F4.8090004@safesearching.com> <4e36d31d0510281847m3f54c70dy8b2a0679fa3c6cec@mail.gmail.com> <4362DFAB.1090701@safesearching.com> <43630958.4060406@php.net> <000e01c5dccc$e81f9470$6c051fac@lighthammer> <4363F000.1030902@php.net> <4e36d31d0510291558i6299bddam4d76eaa49adeeb8e@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4e36d31d0510291558i6299bddam4d76eaa49adeeb8e@mail.gmail.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.92.1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at bluga.net Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] what happened to that new isset() like language From: greg@chiaraquartet.net (Greg Beaver) Sebastian wrote: > Given that // is not acceptable, as others sarcastically reminded me, > and that this introduces new sytax, I think it might be best just to > add more functions. I don't think something like > > >>$d = 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. au contraire. The first happens without a name collision with any user-space functions. Greg