On Fri, Oct 01, 1999 at 10:58:16AM -0600, "Nathan Torkington" wrote: > Wilson P. Snyder II writes: > > What's the big deal? > You need to read the p5p archives on this subject. It caused much > bitter dissent within the ranks. The last word heard was that nothing > would be done on it in 5.6, if ever. We already have a working patch > for it, but it's not something that the pumpking(s) are eager to > include. > So, you'll have to stick with 'defined($x) ? $a : $b'. This is really silly. We need one of the following: use NameOfExtensionThatIDonTWantToMakeUpRightNow; $a ??= $b; Or, my $a : string; $a ||= $b; # Just works "right" I find the argument over safe signals similarly silly. The fact that people would choose to have unsafe code for a tad more speed almost makes me sick. What language were companies banking their money on having their coders program in again? mark -- markm@nortelnetworks.com/mark@mielke.cc/markm@ncf.ca __________________________ . . _ ._ . . .__ . . ._. .__ . . . .__ | CUE Development (4Y21) |\/| |_| |_| |/ |_ |\/| | |_ | |/ |_ | Nortel Networks | | | | | \ | \ |__ . | | .|. |__ |__ | \ |__ | Ottawa, Ontario, Canada One ring to rule them all, one ring to find them, one ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them... http://mark.mielke.cc/Thread Previous | Thread Next