Re: [PHP-DEV] feature request From: Andi Gutmans (andi <email protected>)
Date: 03/20/01

I think it makes sense to have empty() behave the same as isset() (they are
brother functions).
empty($a, $b, $c) would return 0 if non are empty and 1 if one of those
variables is empty.

Andi

At 12:22 AM 3/20/2001 -0500, Jon Parise wrote:
>On Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 11:35:31PM +0200, Zeev Suraski wrote:
>
> > Fact is, using isset() with multiple arguments is much more necessary in
> > real world than other is_*() functions. isset() is very often used to
> > validate user input.
>
>Then should the same argument be applied to empty(), too?
>
>For the record, I'm perfectly happy with things the way they are. If
>I need to test the existence of two variables, I'm content doing so
>(verbosely) with two isset() calls.
>
>Admittedly, I don't see anything wrong or dangerous with extending
>isset() to test multiple variables, but I just hope this doesn't go
>too far into the syntactic sugar realm.
>
>--
>Jon Parise (jon <email protected>) . Rochester Inst. of Technology
>http://www.csh.rit.edu/~jon/ : Computer Science House Member 

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