On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 12:21:45PM -0800, Andi Gutmans wrote:
> Yeah I realize it's different but my idea was that if you have something
> like:
> filter_get(POST, "foo", FILTER_NUMBER) the semantics of this or some other
> function could be:
> if (isset($_POST["foo"]) && is_number(.....
>
> I think in most cases that would do and doesn't require to add/change
> opcodes and language constructs...
Yeah, but... what if one wants to call it on a variable that's not part of
the superglobals? Plus that construct doesn't provide a way to set the
default value for the particular variable at hand.
--Dan
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