In PHP 7.3, the `compact()` function has been changed to issue an `E_NOTICE` level error if a passed string refers to an unset variable. In previous versions of PHP, this notice was silently skipped. This fixes a few more instances of unset variables in the WordPress admin.
The full RFC can be viewed here: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/compact.
See #44416.
Merges [44185] into trunk.
Fixes#45483.
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