Considering that broquaint had nothing to do with the decision, and was merely adding info to the thread I think your tone is a touch out of line.

Can you explain why undef is superior to foo or even a fatal error?

I imagine that the reason it was left out was not so much that the answer was indeterminate, but rather in order to avoid countless numbers of users bitching about it not working they way they expect. Better to leave it out on the grounds that to do anything else would just end up wasting more time than it ever could have saved.

Incidentally if you think this is a good behaviour you are of course perfectly entitled to create your own class and use overload to provide it.


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<Elian> And I do take a kind of perverse pleasure in having an OO assembly language...

In reply to Re: Re: Re: $a++ allowed by $a-- is not ! why? by demerphq
in thread $a++ allowed by $a-- is not ! why? by abhishes

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