> On 25 Oct 2019, at 00:33, Dan Ackroyd <dan...@basereality.com> wrote: > >> On Thu, 24 Oct 2019 at 18:21, Ken Stanley <doh...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Since PHP 7.0 brought forward the Null Coalescing Operator (??), writing >> more succinct code for how to handle null values has been a blessing. But, >> what about the inverse when you want to do something when a value is not >> null? > > Hi Ken, > > It may help to give a real world example, rather than a metasyntactic > one, as I can't immediately see how this would be useful. > > People have been expressing a concern over 'symbol soup' for similar > ideas. The null colalesce scenario happens frequently enough, that it > seemed to overcome the hurdle needed for acceptance. Again, giving a > real world example of what you currently need to do frequently might > help other people understand the need. > > cheers > Dan > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >
Hi Ken, This sounds like an alternative approach (for solving the same basic problem) to the nullsafe operator discussed a while back, no? https://wiki.php.net/rfc/nullsafe_calls Cheers Stephen
