What does coalesce() do? If I'm guessing correctly, would proposal #2 that Rune Kaagaard put up solve that for you? https://gist.github.com/909711
Rune's proposal #2, extending func_get_arg(), is impossible to implement/would not work. His proposal #3, which is more like coalesce(), suffers from the drawbacks/problems of coalesce() which I discussed in a recent post (though you can see Rune has some workarounds/hacks to deal with some of the problems). IMHO, his proposal #1 is the only real contender. However, I believe it conflates two problems which others do not want conflated. He briefly dismisses the [?] syntax, because it addresses what he sees as a different problem. However, that different problem is really part of his problem. My contention is that the two parts of his problem are better solved independently (notice-suppression separately to finding an isset/!empty value), and furthermore that one of the two versions of his problem is already partially solved and should be reused, not reinvented (existing ternary operator for a !empty check). Ben. -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
