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Re: Proposal: split ternary ?? :: into binary ?? and //

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From:
Ashley Winters
Date:
September 5, 2005 18:00
Subject:
Re: Proposal: split ternary ?? :: into binary ?? and //
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cda42dbb0509051800447d6678@mail.gmail.com
On 9/5/05, Damian Conway <damian@conway.org> wrote:
> Patrick suggested:
> 
>  > At OSCON I was also thinking that it'd be really nice to get rid of
>  > the :: in the ternary and it occurred to me that perhaps we could use
>  > something like '?:' as the 'else' token instead:
>  >
>  >    (cond) ??  (if_true) ?: (if_false)
>  >
>  > However, I'll freely admit that I hadn't investigated much further
>  > to see if this might cause other syntax ambiguities.
> 
> I think the main problem there would be the *visual* similarity
> between the two.

Indeed. The "logical" (bad pun intended) operator to match with ?? is !!

(cond) ?? (if_true) !! (if_false)

Ashley Winters
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