Argh!  Guys, let's not use anything that just combines 2 existing
keywords.  Being able to read stuff at a glance is important:

  if exists(...)
  ifexists(...)

or

  else if(...)
  ifelse(...)

these would do vastly different things but look alike, and that is ungood.

-Rasmus

On Sat, 17 Apr 2004, Jani Taskinen wrote:

> On Fri, 16 Apr 2004, Edin Kadribasic wrote:
>
> >
> >On Friday, Apr 16, 2004, at 22:25 Europe/Copenhagen, Rasmus Lerdorf
> >wrote:
> >
> >> On Fri, 16 Apr 2004, Derick Rethans wrote:
> >>
> >>> On Fri, 16 Apr 2004, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote:
> >>>
> >>>>> This would lead to
> >>>>> $a = isset($b, 'default');
> >>>>
> >>>> I think this is the sanest suggestion yet.
> >>>
> >>> But it's already in use... (isset accepts multiple parameters and does
> >>> an AND on those).
> >>
> >> Ah, that won't work then.
> >
> >How about ifexists()? Someone mentioned this on irc and I think it
> >would work here.
>
>       _  __      _           ____
>      (_)/ _| ___| |___  ___ / /\ \
>      | | |_ / _ \ / __|/ _ \ |  | |
>      | |  _|  __/ \__ \  __/ |  | |
>      |_|_|  \___|_|___/\___| |  | |
>                             \_\/_/
>
>
>      ifelse()
>
>
>      --Jani
>
>
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