It will be difficult to define the check for such a coalesce function
that everybody agrees on. Personnally I like the !empty test, but would
want it to check on != 0 too. Most probably my favourite check would be
something like:
!empty($foo) || (string)$foo !== ''
Someone else might want thi
Ron,
I was thinking about behavioral variants but left them out to keep my
message shorter. I haven't really thought of a clean way to use one
named function to provide both types of functionality. I was
originally thinking of a constant parameter to indicate a "mode" but
with the arbit
I must say, I like the coalesce() idea a lot. It gives more flexibility over
ifsetor() which sounds to me like it only handles 1 variable that is or
isn't set. coalesce() would handle any number of variables.
Here's something else to consider though:
Would anybody be interested in a parameter for
