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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Combined assignment operator for short ternary
From: krebs.seb@gmail.com (Sebastian Krebs)

Am 25.08.2012 01:00, schrieb Stas Malyshev:
> Hi!
>
>> To point that out: I _don't_ want to change the behaviour, which means
>>
>> | $foo['xy'] ?:= 'bar';
>>
>> would trigger a notice like
>>
>> | $foo['xy'] = $foo['xy'] ?: 'bar';
>
> Then I personally don't see much point in it. Saving a couple of
> keystrokes IMHO is not really worth it.
>

Hi,

It's like with any other compound operator: A _real_ reason isn't there. 
But saying "It's not worth it" is something I can live with (even if I 
don't know how much effort it would take ;)). I just asked myself: '?:' 
is (a kind of?) binary operator and every other binary operator is 
available as compound operator, so why not '?:', so I don't have to 
repeat the variable?

Regards,
Sebastian