How is it another way of doing same thing? It’s same way without unnecessary stuff. It’s more intuitive, as it doesn’t make sense to force user to specify variable they don’t need. When learning PHP, I remember being surprised I’m forced to specify variable I am not going to use. Plenty other languages like C#, C++, Python, Ruby already allow this.
> On 21. Feb 2019, at 17:57, Dan Ackroyd <dan...@basereality.com> wrote: > > On Thu, 21 Feb 2019 at 15:46, Roland Franssen <franssen.rol...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> For now, I'm aiming to get rid of "unused variable $e". > > You seem to be trying to alter the language to fit your code-style > checker, rather than altering your code-style checker to fit the > language. > > That seems back-to-front to me. > > Although there are times when having multiple ways of doing the same > thing can be a benefit, each new way is a something else that has to > be learned, so in my opinion they need more justification than this. > >> Example in the wild that could benefit from this: > > That code appears to be using exceptions for flow-control, which is > often recommended to not do. Again, wanting to change the language to > meet the needs of some code that is following a style that is > discouraged doesn't seem the right way round to me. > > cheers > Dan > Ack > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
