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Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2016 20:12:11 +0000
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To: Mutlu Kocak <mtkocak@mtkocak.net>
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	PHP internals <internals@lists.php.net>, Sara Golemon <pollita@php.net>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Add spaceship assignment operator
From: james@asgrim.com (James Titcumb)

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On 24 Mar 2016 19:43, "Mutlu Kocak" <mtkocak@mtkocak.net> wrote:
>
> he is trolling :)
>

I wouldn't dismiss this idea straight off. I can see a lot of practical
uses for chaining assignment operators, like:

$a !==<=>==== $b;

Expanded from:

$a = $a !== (($a <=> $b) === $b);

Which is something I often do in my production applications. In fact I
typed this exact use case about 12 times just today.

It's a good, expressive way of simplifying code and increasing readability.
This would really complete the language IMO.

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