Re: RFC: blank() Function as a Complement to empty()

From: Date: Sat, 05 Apr 2025 19:23:43 +0000
Subject: Re: RFC: blank() Function as a Complement to empty()
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On 05/04/2025 20:18, Rob Landers wrote:

On Sat, Apr 5, 2025, at 21:10, Bilge wrote:

On 05/04/2025 19:41, Rob Landers wrote:

empty() has very many uses.

That is exactly the same as saying == has many uses. It does. So many uses that it's useless. Its semantics are nonsense.


if (isset($var) && $varl != false) {
  foo($bool);
}


$varl != false


You should never be doing this.

Cheers,
Bilge


Heh, to quote a great movie: That's just like, your opinion, man. In all seriousness, there are quite a number of uses for ==, especially because we don't have operators on objects, nor do we have value objects. Sometimes, equality isn't based on identity, but on value:

https://3v4l.org/rRMNR

— Rob


You don't use empty() on objects.

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