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Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2016 09:25:10 +0700
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Add spaceship assignment operator
From: pierre.php@gmail.com (Pierre Joye)

Hi Nikita,

On Fri, Mar 25, 2016 at 12:50 AM, Nikita Popov <nikita.ppv@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi internals!
>
> For consistency, we should add a spaceship assignment operator:
>
>     $a <=>= $b;
>     // same as
>     $a = ($a <=> $b);

I miserably fail to imagine any use case for this.

> Additionally, we should add an is-identical assignment operator:
>
>     $a ==== $b;
>     // same as
>     $a = ($a === $b);
>
> Thank you for taking this proposal under consideration.

Besides the comment about that one from Sara, I also fail to remotely
imagine why one would need that.

In short, yes, it is consistent but it is really unreadable, at best.

-- 
Pierre

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