Perhaps isset should be branched to form a separate function to handle multi args,
we could offer things in the new function such as an optional argument that passes
back an array of results.
-Jason
----- Original Message -----
From: "Phil Driscoll" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Chris Newbill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Zeev Suraski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Andi
Gutmans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "PHP DEV" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, March 19, 2001 1:58 PM
Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] feature request
> My earlier post to the list doesn't seem to have arrived yet, so here it is
> again. You'll note from the posting that I'm not keen on the patch staying
> in. There are considerable efforts being made by several of us on the QA
> team trying to make the language more orthogonal, and this kind of ad hoc
> addition really doesn't help.
>
> ************
> >That is the only thing that I see of any real use as well. I was just
> >humoring Andi and his idea that we would soon be requesting that feature of
> >knowing which one failed the test.
>
> I was really voting no for the original feature - just returning true or
> false - unless it can be shown (and implemented) that iswhatever(multiple
> args) will work sensibly across the board, and that implementing
> iswhatever(multiple args) does not waste the function namespace for a new
> feature - e.g. loads of php functions take optional extra arguments to
> modify their behaviour, but once iswhatever gained the multi argument
> functionality described, it would be impossible to extend the functionality
> in this way.
>
> Cheers, and apologies for such a long sentence
> ************
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