Hi! > If I'm to understand this RFC correctly, it is nothing more than a > random suggestion someone posed in the form of a tweet and the author is > saying why not add it since it's not hard to implement. So in summation
Well, here we go - this is why not add it, because it makes working with such code harder without actually benefiting anybody. > So this entire discussion can be summed up nicely with "Let's make the > variable optional because... why not?". "Why not" is usually not a very good principle of language design, IMO. -- Stanislav Malyshev, Software Architect SugarCRM: http://www.sugarcrm.com/ (408)454-6900 ext. 227 -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php