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Subject: RE: [PHP-DEV] [DISCUSSION] Make empty() a Variadic
From: francois@php.net (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Fran=E7ois_Laupretre?=)

> De=A0: Michael Wallner [mailto:mike.php.net@gmail.com] De la part de =
Michael
Wallner
>
> > I think the || behaviour is the most useful, as it=92s the analogue =
of
> > isset=92s. So !empty($a, $b, $c) would work similarly to isset($a, =
$b,
> > $c), and similarly, !isset($a, $b, $c) would work similarly to
> > empty($a, $b, $c).
> >
> > But that=92s just my opinion. :)
>=20
> Okay, while I think it has a tiny WTF attached, because isset() has =
ALL
> semantics and empty() would have ANY semantics, it's probably useful
> only in that way.

Agreed. Adds an ambiguity but would be useless otherwise.

May I suggest to extend your proposal to is_null() with the same logic ?

Fran=E7ois