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Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2019 09:50:37 -0400
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To: Peter Bowyer <phpmailinglists@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] anti-coalescing-operator
From: dohpaz@gmail.com (Ken Stanley)

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On Wed, Oct 30, 2019 at 7:35 AM Peter Bowyer <phpmailinglists@gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Fri, 25 Oct 2019 at 00:28, Sara Golemon <pollita@php.net> wrote:
>
>> At the risk of hijacking, @matthewrask asked me about ?-> a couple weeks
>> ago (Javascript is making this one popular), and I threw together a rough
>> PoC at
>> https://github.com/php/php-src/compare/master...sgolemon:null-coalesce
>> which
>> I suspect he intends to RFC properly soon.  As long as the topic is at
>> hand, what's the general appetite for it?  Should I bother polishing the
>> turd?
>>
>
> It would be the best Christmas present ever.
>
> Well. Almost.
>
> Peter
>

Folks, I haven't forgotten about this; in fact, I've been thinking about it
all weekend, and I cannot come up with a good use-case that hasn't already
been shown to have either a viable current work-around, or an RFC (with
code already written) that would give me what I was looking to do with my
!?? operator syntax.

So, with that said, I see no reason to further the discussion on a not-null
coalescing operator. I do want to thank everybody for their kind and
thoughtful feedback. You really made me think about this, and I enjoyed it.
I will continue to look for something I can cut my teeth on as a first-time
contribution to php core.

- Ken Stanley

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