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To: Andreas Hennings <andreas@dqxtech.net>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] null coalesce addition assignment operator ??+=
From: pollita@php.net (Sara Golemon)

On Fri, Jan 19, 2018 at 8:25 PM, Andreas Hennings <andreas@dqxtech.net> wrote:
> I can definitely say it was not a joke.
>
Alrighty then...

> A: Yeah seems useful, but let's wait (or work) until ??= is
> implemented and released, and observe how it is being used.
>
Funnily enough, ??+= would be easier to implement than ??= because in
the case of ??+= we always want to evaluate the RHS, while in the case
of ??= the RHS's evaluation is conditional.

> B: No one will ever use it, and it would hurt the language.
>
"hurt" is subjective here, and for every X participants to this thread
you'll get X+1 answers on what that means. :p

-Sara