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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Nullsafe calls
From: rowan.collins@gmail.com (Rowan Collins)

guilhermeblanco@gmail.com wrote on 11/12/2014 15:57:
> Not trying to demerit the proposal, but accepting ?-> and black magic just
> seems wrong, very wrong.
> You need to write defensive code, not rely on the language to do that for
> you.

But surely if you're consciously deciding to use this feature, it *is* 
defensive code - just defensive code involving less copy-and-paste of if 
( ! is_null($blah) )...