Hi internals team,

My name is Khaled Alam, a software engineer with over 9 years of PHP
experience. I’ve been working extensively with Laravel, Symfony, and Yii,
and have contributed to multiple production SaaS applications. I’ve
recently registered on the PHP wiki under the username *khaledalamxyz.*

I’d like to request *RFC karma* to create a new proposal titled "*Fail-Fast
Assertion Operator (=>!)"*.

*About the Proposal:*
The idea is to introduce a new *fail_fast_assertion_operator* to PHP that
provides a concise and readable way to assert that an expression is valid
and immediately fail otherwise.

*Example 1:*
$name = null;
$name =>! die("Missing name");
This is equivalent to:
if (!$name) {
die("Missing name");
}

*Example 2:*
$username =>! throw new Exception("Missing username");
$password =>! throw new Exception("Missing password");
is_valid($username, $password) =>! exit("Invalid credentials");
This is equivalent to:
if (!$username) {
throw new Exception("Missing username");
}

if (!$password) {
throw new Exception("Missing password");
}

if (!is_valid($username, $password)) {
exit("Invalid credentials");
}

The goal is to improve readability and reduce boilerplate in fail-fast
validation scenarios. This is particularly useful in input validation,
functional pipelines, and early guard clauses.

I’d like to open the discussion and collaborate with the community to
refine and assess its value and implementation feasibility.

Please let me know if anything else is required from my side.


Best regards,
__

*Khaled Alam*
LinkedIn <https://linkedin.com/in/khaledalam/>  |  Website
<https://khaledalam.net/>  |  khaledalam....@gmail.com
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