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To: David Rodrigues <david.proweb@gmail.com>, Sara Golemon <pollita@php.net>
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Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2020 17:43:22 +0100
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Subject: Re: Supports to ?:= assignment operator
From: bjorn.x.larsson@telia.com (=?UTF-8?Q?Bj=c3=b6rn_Larsson?=)

Hi,
Den 2020-11-11 kl. 17:18, skrev David Rodrigues:

> Hello!
>
> PHP currently supports ??= assignment, as shortly to $a = $a ?? null, but
> it does not supports ?:= as shortly to $a = $a ?: null.
>
> There are some reason to that?
>
> - https://wiki.php.net/rfc/null_coalesce_equal_operator
> - https://wiki.php.net/rfc/short_ternary_equal_operator
>
> Thanks!
>
>
> Atenciosamente,
> David Rodrigues

Work on this was done by Sara Golemon during 2016. I recall that
the voting was closed, see:
- https://externals.io/message/91901

Maybe time to bring it forward again for PHP 8.1?

r//Björn Larsson