[autopoietic_sapien]

PHP 8.0 feature focus: nullsafe methods

[helloworder]

I’d rather call that nullsafe method **calls**

[monstermudder78]

Fuckin finally.

[tamasmagyarhunor]

I am a Mid PHP Developer in my job, more like an advanced junior in general and both this and last weeks article (about weak maps) were amazing and super good insight. thanks for taking the time to write and post them! <3

[oojacoboo]

Trying to think of where I’d use this. In general, if I’m expecting an object and don’t get it, there is a business logic issue and an exception is warranted.

What would be nice, is if I could define that exception.

[SavishSalacious]

I would love to see the C implementation for this.

[tomtheimpaler]

Thanks Larry. Can’t wait to use this personally, an old inherited project will be really helped by this

[rreynier]

Can someone explain to me why nulls are so bad. If I have a User who can optionally have an Address, to me it makes sense that $user->get address() would return null. I’m not sure what else is should return if nulls were not a thing?

[afuiasdyfuiay]

`$state = get_user($id)?->getAddress()?->state;`

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?? sorry but this sucks. the operator is easy to miss and could make bugs harder to track down to fix the root cause.

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