On 17 September 2015 02:17:59 BST, Robert Williams <rewilli...@thesba.com> wrote: > An unset variable is not null. Rather, it’s >completely undefined, and PHP yells at you for just that reason if you >try to access it. Then, it turns around and tries to appease you by >giving you null.
I see it as rather the other way around: it happily gives you a null, but then says "oh, by the way, you never actually initialised that variable to null". Not an error, just a friendly aside. -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php