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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] anti-coalescing-operator
From: marandall@php.net (Mark Randall)
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On 24/10/2019 22:52, Ken Stanley wrote:
> I'm more interested in having a negation operator for the null-coalescing
> operator, especially since cognatively it should be easy to discern what it
> does.

At the point your syntax ends up looking like you're screaming at your 
source code, I think easy cognition has likely gone out the window.

There are plenty of much more expressive ways of doing this without 
introducing new syntax IMHO.

Mark Randall