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To: "Christoph M. Becker" <cmbecker69@gmx.de>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] null coalesce addition assignment operator ??+=
From: pollita@php.net (Sara Golemon)

On Thu, Jan 18, 2018 at 7:13 PM, Christoph M. Becker <cmbecker69@gmx.de> wrote:
> On 18.01.2018 at 23:58, Stanislav Malyshev wrote:
>
>>> I propose even more such operators:
>>> null coalesce addition assignment ??+= (for strings and numbers)
>>> null coalesce subtraction assignment ??-=
>>> null coalesce increment ??++
>>> null coalesce decrement ??--
>>> null coalesce multiplication assingment ??*=
>>
>> I think this is taking it too far. If you want language like that, you
>> always have APL :)
>
> Why do we discuss extensions to an operator which has still (after
> nearly two years) not be implemented due to implementation difficulties?
>
Am I the only one who looked at the original post and assumed he was
taking the piss?
Similar to the jokes about spaceship assignment <=>= and
equality/identicality assignment === (not to be confused with
identical non-assign, which is ===) and ====.

-Sara