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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Nullsafe calls
From: smalyshev@gmail.com (Stanislav Malyshev)

Hi!

> I think it's confusing the other way, and "instead of raising a fatal
> for calling a method on null, it returns null" is just as simple of
> an explanation.

What is confusing in "no call is made, so nothing is evaluated" or in
"as soon as we see null, we stop and return null"? I can not believe
anybody smart enough to use a computer could be genuinely confused by this.

> All of that said: it's not clear to me that this actually matters
> that much. I wasn't able to quickly find an example because the vast

I think it does matter, and weird magic should not be a part of the
language.

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Stas Malyshev
smalyshev@gmail.com