Hey Gert,

On Wed, 24 Aug 2022 at 14:59, Gert de Pagter <gert...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Internals,
>
> I recently learned that using null safe on an array access can still
> emit a warning when the array access is not defined. I kinda expected
> it to work like a null coalesce and just short circuit there,without
> the warning.
>
> Is there any chance this behaviour could be changed in a n upcoming
> PHP version? I didn't see anything mentioned specifically about this
> in the RFC.
>
> https://3v4l.org/1raa8
>
> Greetings,
> Gert de Pagter/ BackEndTea
>

This seems expected behavior to me: it's "nullsafe", not "undefinedsafe".

If it operated like `??`, then `$undefined?->bar()` would be valid too,
which seems wrong, IMO.

Marco Pivetta

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https://ocramius.github.io/

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