Re: [chiPHPug-discuss] "10 Advanced PHP Tips"

[Jason R. <ja...@ho...>]

Precisely the point.  But the construct will more often be abused than 
not if its  in the style guide..

Dont get me wrong, I love rough, sharp pointy edges that the smart 
developer can use to do tricky things with, but thats more of a code 
cosmetics issue than actual functionality.

I guess we all have opinions on where to make trade-offs, eh?

;-)



Wilfried Schobeiri wrote:
> Which is why you only use it in your view, not in your biz logic. The  
> goal is clean, short, and survivable. The example they have on the  
> manpage there is awful... I'd consider that borderline obfuscation.
> 
> On Mar 30, 2009, at 15:47 , Jason Rexilius wrote:
> 
>> The example they give on the man page is enlightening if you think  
>> about
>> it from the point of view of some college kid who had java or .net
>> classes and is learning PHP on the job doing maintenance on some  
>> legacy
>> code base:
>>
>> <?php
>> // Example usage for: Ternary Operator
>> $action = (empty($_POST['action'])) ? 'default' : $_POST['action'];
>>
>> // The above is identical to this if/else statement
>> if (empty($_POST['action'])) {
>>     $action = 'default';
>> } else {
>>     $action = $_POST['action'];
>> }
>>
>> ?>
>>
>>
>> While the ternary operation is shorter and more terse, the standard
>> if/else method will be easier for them to follow.
>>
>>
>> Again, its about survivable code not shortest code.  In order to  
>> survive
>> it has to live in the real world which often has people of various  
>> skill
>> levels interacting with it over time..
>>
>> But, I'm just a curmudgeon ;-)
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Jough Dempsey wrote:
>>> On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 1:07 PM, Wilfried Schobeiri <ws...@de... 
>>>> wrote:
>>>> Was hoping that http://wiki.php.net/rfc/ifsetor/s suggested "?:"  
>>>> would
>>>> be accepted.
>>> It was.  You can short-circuit ternary operations in PHP 5.3:
>>>
>>> http://us2.php.net/ternary
>>>
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