> But, if you're dealing with a counter, then, the intent is that you are > going to start counting at 0 and increase it.
This is not that clear as you may think. Several questions may come to mind when you will see incrementation of non-existing variable/key. Is it a bug and this should be initialized with a different value than 0? Maybe a mistake on copy&paste? Maybe a typo? One additional line will make your code much more obvious and easier to read and understand: $i ??= 0; $i++; Your code is not only for compiler/parser, but also for humans. Expressing your intentions clearly is important - the less ambiguity the better. Regards, Robert Korulczyk -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
