No doubt, clean code is king! And we don't want more work for Andi! :)
Basically I see this functionality as filling a niche and nothing more.
It's not a wonder-drug, it just makes certain situations a little more
readable/maintainable IMHO.
-Chris
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andi Gutmans [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, 19 March, 2001 1-12 pM
> To: Jason Greene; Phil Driscoll; Chris Newbill; Zeev Suraski
> Cc: PHP DEV
> Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] feature request
>
>
> 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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