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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Combined assignment operator for short ternary
From: ajf@ajf.me (Andrew Faulds)

On 18/08/12 03:36, Tjerk Meesters wrote:
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On 18 Aug, 2012, at 5:41 AM, Sebastian Krebs <krebs.seb@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Don't know, how complicated this is (and also someone (not me) must implement it, because I can't :X), but to be in sync with the operators the short ternary operator should be usable in conjunction with the assignment like the other binary operators. Don't know, if anybody understands me :D So here is an example
>>
>> // instead of
>> $foo = $foo ?: 'default';
>> // Just
>> $foo ?:= 'default';
> Why not just: $foo ?= 'default';
Just noting, I made a ML email earlier about this, except it would be 
shorthand for isset($lval) ? $lval : $default. And this has been brought 
up before several times.
>> I have many of this "default assigments" and yes: This is just syntactic sugar.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Sebastian
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