Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Implicit isset() in Shorthand Ternary Operator

[email protected] (Sherif Ramadan)
Newsgroups php.internals
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On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 4:06 AM, Michael Wallner <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 07/09/14 14:25, Andrea Faulds wrote:
>
> >
> > There’s actually a quite serious issue just now, which is that it
> > evaluates the first operand twice if it’s not empty. This is because
> > $a ?: $b is expanded to empty($a) ? $b : $a, such that if you did
> > something which mutates state in there, it’d happen twice. This is
> > obviously not good, and I’m going to figure out how to fix this.
> >
>
> This could very well be the reason why it is like it is today.
>
>
I agree. The more I think about, the more this seems weird. What if I
explicitly want to use ternary to check isset() and not empty?
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