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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Combined assignment operator for short ternary
From: krebs.seb@gmail.com (Sebastian Krebs)

Am 19.08.2012 00:20, schrieb 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.

The "except" is important: I don't want to change the behaviour in any way.

>>> I have many of this "default assigments" and yes: This is just
>>> syntactic sugar.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Sebastian
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