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Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2012 01:53:48 +0200
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To: Sebastian Krebs <krebs.seb@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Combined assignment operator for short ternary
From: nikita.ppv@gmail.com (Nikita Popov)

On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 1:49 AM, Sebastian Krebs <krebs.seb@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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?

No, every other binary operator is not available. If I interpret this
right one could say that all short-circuiting operators are not
available. E.g. you also can't write $foo &&= $bar; or $foo ||= $bar.
The ?: operator also falls in this category of short-circuiting
logical operators.