Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:3951 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 22964 invoked from network); 14 Aug 2003 19:16:22 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO asuka.nerv) (24.112.18.98) by pb1.pair.com with SMTP; 14 Aug 2003 19:16:22 -0000 Received: (qmail 16883 invoked from network); 14 Aug 2003 19:29:56 -0000 Received: from rei.nerv (HELO dummy.com) (rei@192.168.1.1) by asuka.nerv with SMTP; 14 Aug 2003 19:29:56 -0000 Reply-To: ilia@prohost.org To: walt boring , Timm Friebe , internals@lists.php.net Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 15:30:20 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.3 References: <1060813541.901.336.camel@ali> <1060886610.50229.9.camel@localhost> <3F3BDEEE.4000106@3gstech.com> In-Reply-To: <3F3BDEEE.4000106@3gstech.com> Organization: Prohost.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-ID: <200308141530.20653.ilia@prohost.org> Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: variable_exists() patch From: ilia@prohost.org (Ilia Alshanetsky) On August 14, 2003 03:11 pm, walt boring wrote: > exactly why isset() is either > 1) a bad name for the function or > 2) 'broken' Wrong. isset() has a very proper name "is-set", which to me and other people says that it will see if a variable is set (has a value). It does this job admirably and it certainly not broken. Documentation specifies how this function will perform perfectly. Ilia