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From:
Joseph F. Ryan
Date:
February 2, 2003 19:10
Subject:
Re: Shortcut: ?=
Message ID:
3E3DDDB1.4040300@osu.edu
Miko O'Sullivan wrote:
>SUMMARY
>
>C<$var ?= $x : $y> as a shortcut for C<$var = $var ? $x : $y>.
>
>
>DETAILS
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>We have ||=, +=, -=, etc. These shortcuts (I'm sure there's some fancy
>linguistic term for them) save us a few keystrokes and clean up the code.
>
>So, concerning C<? :>, I find myself doing this type of thing a lot:
>
> $var = $var ? 1 : 0;
>
>How 'bout a shortcut for that, something like this:
>
> $var ?= 1 : 0;
>
>
>-miko
>
Doesn't the perl6 //= operator already do what you suggest?
Joseph F. Ryan
ryan.311@osu.edu
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