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To: James Titcumb <james@asgrim.com>
Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Add spaceship assignment operator
From: mtkocak@gmail.com (Midori Kocak)

actually it could be proposed to C in 1970 in a same manner for +=3D =
operator by saying +=3D=3D and +=3D=3D=3D and also +=3D=3D=3D=3D. But =
hence Dennis Ritchie is dead and he accepted +=3D as a founding father, =
we have no chance to ask him. Can we ask maybe to Bjarne Stroustrup as =
being one of another founding fathers? Is there anyone being in contact =
with him?


> On 24 Mar 2016, at 21:12, James Titcumb <james@asgrim.com> wrote:
>=20
> On 24 Mar 2016 19:43, "Mutlu Kocak" <mtkocak@mtkocak.net> wrote:
>>=20
>> he is trolling :)
>>=20
>=20
> I wouldn't dismiss this idea straight off. I can see a lot of =
practical
> uses for chaining assignment operators, like:
>=20
> $a !=3D=3D<=3D>=3D=3D=3D=3D $b;
>=20
> Expanded from:
>=20
> $a =3D $a !=3D=3D (($a <=3D> $b) =3D=3D=3D $b);
>=20
> Which is something I often do in my production applications. In fact I
> typed this exact use case about 12 times just today.
>=20
> It's a good, expressive way of simplifying code and increasing =
readability.
> This would really complete the language IMO.