Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:22804 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 88487 invoked by uid 1010); 17 Apr 2006 00:01:54 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 88471 invoked from network); 17 Apr 2006 00:01:54 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 17 Apr 2006 00:01:54 -0000 X-Host-Fingerprint: 129.41.69.185 smtp.dealnews.com Linux 2.5 (sometimes 2.4) (4) Received: from ([129.41.69.185:28455] helo=smtp.dealnews.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.0 beta r(6323M)) with SMTP id 10/C4-19715-1FAD2444 for ; Sun, 16 Apr 2006 20:01:53 -0400 Received: (qmail 14901 invoked from network); 16 Apr 2006 20:01:48 -0400 Received: from unknown (HELO ?10.1.6.4?) (10.1.6.4) by 10.1.1.24 with SMTP; 16 Apr 2006 20:01:48 -0400 Message-ID: <4442DAD8.1090607@dealnews.com> Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2006 19:01:28 -0500 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.2 (Macintosh/20060406) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Pierre CC: Lukas Smith , internals@lists.php.net, Derick Rethans , itrebal@gmail.com References: <2e24b1e00604150752g69acab4er1058771d9e60a352@mail.gmail.com> <4442CB1E.7050508@php.net> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Inconsistency of empty() and isset() ? From: brianm@dealnews.com (Brian Moon) > Indeed, especially as everyone will tell you that isset and empty are > equivalent. Are you saying that people misunderstand that or that you believe that to be true? I see that misunderstanding a lot. I have to educate people on that. They don't seem to grok the subtle, yet crucial (and I believe, wonderful) difference between the two. Brian.