Ugh, that's exactly what I didn't want to get into. If you want an array of
results you're better of doing a few if() statements. It's faster and
writes much nicer code.
Andi
At 02:08 PM 3/19/2001 -0600, Jason Greene wrote:
>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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