Well, if you want to use empty in the above mentioned situations, you might
need the change. I personally don't like using empty(). I use it only on
arrays, that's because semantically fits: array is empty.
In other situations I prefer comparing against the according return type
because it improve
> Hi!
>
> "The original reason for this restriction probably is that - in a way -
> it "doesn't make sense" to pass anything but a variable to empty()"
>
> I don't see the point of empty( function() ).
>
> You tipically use empty on values that holds information you want to use
> later in the progr
