On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 1:21 PM, Hannes Landeholm <landeh...@gmail.com>wrote:
> I was planning on replying to the "coalesce" suggestion but you really took > my concerns and stated them much better than I could have myself, plus a > couple of other concerns I didn't even think about. > > To respond to Arpad Ray's statement: > > "To elaborate, I'd probably think this code was an unlikely series of > typos, > or an encoding error:" > > In my opinion that's a good thing. Then you might actually look it up in > the > documentation instead of making the assumption that the syntax has > function-like properties just because it looks like a function. For > example, > it took me at least 1 year from first encountering empty() until > understanding that it's not a normal function and actually a language > construct that suppresses unset notices. And I'm a pretty seasoned > programmer. There's only one thing worse than magic: hidden magic. > > and we should try to avoid adding more magic where we can. Tyrael
