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From: rowan.collins@gmail.com (Rowan Collins)

Korvin Szanto wrote on 14/10/2015 23:55:
> If I capture the result of a "void" method and check if my result variable
> with isset(), I'll get false. This sounds like it's void of value to me.

But why "invent" (as far as PHP is concerned) this new keyword of "void" 
to mean exactly the same thing "null" already means - absence of a 
definite value?