---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Eugene Sidelnyk <zsidel...@gmail.com> Date: Tue, Nov 3, 2020 at 7:08 PM Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Nullsafe To: Benjamin Morel <benjamin.mo...@gmail.com>
But currently working code doesn't fail with NullPointerException? Otherwise it would not be a working code. Early fail will be when we try return / pass anywhere this value On Tue, Nov 3, 2020, 6:48 PM Benjamin Morel <benjamin.mo...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, 3 Nov 2020 at 17:38, Eugene Sidelnyk <zsidel...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I am wondering why don't we use ordinary `->` operator with safe null >> handling? > > > Hi, > > - changing the current behaviour of `->` would be a huge BC break > - and if we need another reason, there are many situations where you do > want to fail early if the left operand is null, so the current operator is > a good fit > > — Benjamin >
