# not_null function

- Thread: https://externals.io/message/75261
- Original archive: https://news-web.php.net/php.internals/75261
- Started by Andrea Faulds on 2014-07-05T08:12:20+00:00
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## #75261 — Andrea Faulds — 2014-07-05T08:12:20+00:00

URL: https://externals.io/message/75261#75261

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> On Jul 5, 2014 9:43 AM, "Tjerk Meesters" <tjerk.me esters a gmail.com>
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> Totally fail to see what is ugly with is set or the difference with
> exists(). The latter, in the context of php (even more with phpng) makes
> little sense.
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> Besides that, I am not sure what is the goal of this thread. Adding aliases
> to copy cat <some language>?

Can we please stop this ridiculous bikeshedding? It is incredible this thread
has gone on for so long. PHP has idiosyncracies, but frankly, the is_null
function is hardly the worst of them and I see nothing useful resulting from
this discussion.

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Andrea Faulds
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