Am 29.08.2019 um 18:25 schrieb Aegir Leet <ae...@aegir.sexy>: > Before reading the responses to this thread, I had honestly never > encountered a PHP developer who thought using uninitialized variables > was fine.
Now you have. Nice to meet you. > I knew it worked, but I always considered this to basically be > the PHP equivalent of undefined behavior in C. And I don't think anyone > would get mad if a new GCC version broke the way they were abusing UB. That's where you are mixing things up: It is well-defined behaviour, even if you personally don't like it. A better analogy is static variables in C. It is common (and not considered bad) practice to not explicitly set a variable to 0 as that is the default value. Example: https://github.com/git/git/blob/6d5b26420848ec3bc7eae46a7ffa54f20276249d/delta-islands.c#L26 - Chris -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
