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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 7.1 - Address PHPSadness #28?
From: smalyshev@gmail.com (Stanislav Malyshev)

Hi!

> Would anyone be interested in adding another helper like
> isset()/empty() simply called exists() which would return true if the
> variable is defined in the current scope (i.e. without raising an
> E_NOTICE)?

Not sure what the use case would be for this. For most practical
purposes, isset/empty look completely fine.

> It should be a simple change to add this function but it's too late
> for 7.0 so, if there is any interest, I would respectfully put it off
> until 7.1.

It is simple, but not everything that is simple should be done.
Especially when we talking about adding core functions.

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Stas Malyshev
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