Hey Larry,
In my vision, this proposal is a good addition to PHP exactly as stated in
this pull request (https://github.com/php/php-src/pull/6221): where only
the "=> expr;" is introduced, and not the "fn".
For visual consistency in the future of PHP functions/methods, I think it's
important to d
> On Nov 4, 2020, at 1:38 PM, Eugene Sidelnyk wrote:
>
> Yeah... Creating null was a huge mistake.
> Now it is probably too late to fix that (maybe some new language can
> introduce that).
>
> But what do you think about introducing special class `NullObject`?
I would rather let an instance be
Hey,
On Wed, Nov 4, 2020, 20:39 Eugene Sidelnyk wrote:
> Yeah... Creating null was a huge mistake.
> Now it is probably too late to fix that (maybe some new language can
> introduce that).
>
>
Y'all confusing Java's `null` (billion dollar mistake) with PHP's `null`.
* In Java, `null|object` pa
Yeah... Creating null was a huge mistake.
Now it is probably too late to fix that (maybe some new language can
introduce that).
But what do you think about introducing special class `NullObject`?
On Wed, Nov 4, 2020, 9:32 PM Christian Schneider
wrote:
> Am 04.11.2020 um 19:39 schrieb Eugene Sid
Am 04.11.2020 um 19:39 schrieb Eugene Sidelnyk :
> Thus, can you provide any other dangerous example?
I think at this point you could have realised that it is
a) a BC break (code which has thrown an exception before now wouldn't)
b) not finding any love among the community here. Possibly for a rea
> Implicit nullable is terrible, moreover I don't see why users should return
> null values more often.
> They serve their purpose but most of the time you can use another sane/safe
> default of the given
> property type.
>
Agreed.
I’m not overly opinionated about much, but null as a default
Thus, can you provide any other dangerous example?
On Wed, Nov 4, 2020, 6:59 AM Eugene Sidelnyk wrote:
> But wait!
>
> In your example, funds won't get detracted. If `$accounts->get($receiver)`
> will return `null`, then everything inside `addFunds(...)` will not be
> executed.
> Your example (s
