I used to advocate for Yoda in PHP for the same reason that it's useful in C: if ($var = 1) ... will always evaluate true. But since you should be using =

I used to advocate for Yoda in PHP for the same reason that it's useful in C: if ($var = 1) ... will always evaluate true. But since you should be using === in this context, there's really no excuse for using a single... if ($var === 1) ... Also, can PHP devs please do me the favor of splitting if (null !== ($charset = $env->getCharset())) { into two lines: $charset = $env->getCharset(); if ($charset !== null) { ... Isn't that prettier? The line that the first one saves doesn't really make anyone's life easier...