"Andreas Hennings" wrote in message
news:CAH0Uv3HQK5wjcd_-9GynMw34H78ZTv09q9bc=yZ10JBbeT=v...@mail.gmail.com...
On Fri, Aug 11, 2017 at 12:01 AM, Devnuhl Unnamed <devn...@gmail.com>
wrote:
Would isset($suffix) not suffice here?
You mean like so?
list($prefix, $suffix) = explode(':', 'string_without_suffix');
if (!isset($suffix)) {
..
}
The isset() is too late here, because the list() will already cause an
error.
Other concerns fall around list() already being a difficult thing for
people to understand
I agree.
I fail to understand what is difficult about it.
The point is that other people have difficulty understanding what is
supposed to be a simple feature which is now being expanded to include more
options which change its behaviour.
And "destructuring" is a common concept in programming languages.
https://www.startpage.com/do/search
?query=destructuring&cat=web&pl=chrome&language=english
https://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Operators/Destructuring_assignment
The following already works in Javascript:
[a, b, c, d = 'else'] = ['aa', 'bb', 'cc'];
I just tried it in my Chromium console.
That fact that something like this exists in another language is no reason
to add it to PHP.
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