On Thu, Dec 2, 2021, 10:20 PM Sara Golemon <poll...@php.net> wrote: I'm not hard against this idea. The interpretation of null in these > contexts as being equivalent to empty string isn't unreasonable. I guess > the only objection I could have would be an academic one and I can't really > defend that. So yeah, sure... why not? > > I would say that such applications should consider unifying their own > types. $a = $_GET['q'] ?? ''; Is there a place in the application where > empty string and null would have been distinct? i.e. Is a search for > nothing different from not searching? >
I wonder what is the technical benefit from that? I do feel we are moving to a strict typed language. If that is what is desired, then let decide it clearly and move forward to rhst direction. best, Pierre >
