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Re: On the usage of "@" (error control operator)

From "Leonardo Azpurua" <leonardo@exmvps.org>
Newsgroups comp.lang.php
Subject Re: On the usage of "@" (error control operator)
Date 2012-05-23 10:22 -0430
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"Shake" <QUITAESTO@QUITAESTO.NOES> escribió en el mensaje 
news:jpir8f$til$1@dont-email.me...
> El 23/05/2012 15:17, Leonardo Azpurua escribió:
>> Hi,
>>
>> A few weeks ago, I wrote this sentence:
>>
>>     @$retVal = $this->lastfetch[$ndx];
>>
>> Yesterday, browsing the manual, I found this paragraph:
>>
>> "PHP supports one error control operator: the at sign (@). _When 
>> prepended
>> to an expression_ in PHP, any error messages that might be generated by 
>> that
>> expression will be ignored."
>>
>> and, a few lines further:
>>
>> "A simple rule of thumb is: if you can take the value of something, you 
>> can
>> prepend the @ operator to it."
>>
>> Since an assigment is not an expression, the required syntax should be:
>>
>>     $retVal = @$this->lastfetch[$ndx];
>>
>> But both forms work.
>>
>>
>> Is there any reason to prefer one above the other?
>>
>
> Both forms works, but not both forms are the same:
>
>
> $retVal = @$this->lastfetch[$ndx];
>           (....errors ignored....)
>
> @$retVal = $this->lastfetch[$ndx];
> (.........Errors ignored.........)
>
>
> Perhaps in some cases "$retVal" could throw a type casting error or 
> something of this kind.

Thanks.

Is there any chance that a type casting error occurs in such a statement?

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On the usage of "@" (error control operator) "Leonardo Azpurua" <leonardo@exmvps.org> - 2012-05-23 08:47 -0430
  Re: On the usage of "@" (error control operator) Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2012-05-23 09:50 -0400
    Re: On the usage of "@" (error control operator) "Leonardo Azpurua" <leonardo@exmvps.org> - 2012-05-23 10:19 -0430
      Re: On the usage of "@" (error control operator) Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2012-05-23 12:12 -0400
        Re: On the usage of "@" (error control operator) "Leonardo Azpurua" <leonardo@exmvps.org> - 2012-05-23 14:15 -0430
          Re: On the usage of "@" (error control operator) Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2012-05-23 16:14 -0400
  Re: On the usage of "@" (error control operator) Shake <QUITAESTO@QUITAESTO.NOES> - 2012-05-23 16:12 +0200
    Re: On the usage of "@" (error control operator) "Leonardo Azpurua" <leonardo@exmvps.org> - 2012-05-23 10:22 -0430
      Re: On the usage of "@" (error control operator) Shake <QUITAESTO@QUITAESTO.NOES> - 2012-05-23 17:11 +0200
        Re: On the usage of "@" (error control operator) "Leonardo Azpurua" <leonardo@exmvps.org> - 2012-05-23 10:44 -0430
    Re: On the usage of "@" (error control operator) Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2012-05-23 12:13 -0400
  Re: On the usage of "@" (error control operator) Thomas Mlynarczyk <thomas@mlynarczyk-webdesign.de> - 2012-05-24 22:26 +0200

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