Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:75243 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 14801 invoked from network); 4 Jul 2014 07:26:15 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 4 Jul 2014 07:26:15 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=smalyshev@sugarcrm.com; sender-id=pass Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=smalyshev@sugarcrm.com; spf=pass; sender-id=pass Received-SPF: pass (pb1.pair.com: domain sugarcrm.com designates 108.166.43.83 as permitted sender) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: smalyshev@sugarcrm.com X-Host-Fingerprint: 108.166.43.83 smtp83.ord1c.emailsrvr.com Linux 2.6 Received: from [108.166.43.83] ([108.166.43.83:46703] helo=smtp83.ord1c.emailsrvr.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id A4/C0-06026-61756B35 for ; Fri, 04 Jul 2014 03:26:15 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by smtp11.relay.ord1c.emailsrvr.com (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id 331F8181121; Fri, 4 Jul 2014 03:26:12 -0400 (EDT) X-Virus-Scanned: OK Received: by smtp11.relay.ord1c.emailsrvr.com (Authenticated sender: smalyshev-AT-sugarcrm.com) with ESMTPSA id C47381810E8; Fri, 4 Jul 2014 03:26:11 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <53B65712.2070207@sugarcrm.com> Date: Fri, 04 Jul 2014 00:26:10 -0700 Organization: SugarCRM User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.7; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrey Andreev , Kris Craig CC: PHP internals References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] not_null function From: smalyshev@sugarcrm.com (Stas Malyshev) Hi! > Not any that I'm aware of, and I personally have never used is_null(). > I share your opinion that we don't really need is_null(), but with BC > in mind, I don't think it would get removed. There's nothing to remove. Every type has is_* function, including null type. If is_null() is offensive to somebody for some reason, that person is free to not use it. -- Stanislav Malyshev, Software Architect SugarCRM: http://www.sugarcrm.com/