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On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 08:38:09AM -0500, Johnson, Roy wrote:
> Thanks for considering my proposal. There were a few issues raised that
> I will address here, even though I understand that it's not going to be
> implemented (at least not anytime soon).
I want to go straight to the heart of the problem. Where's the use case?
Take dor, for example. There is a clear and widespread problem its
solving. People write this all the time:
$foo ||= "bar";
when they really mean this:
$foo = "bar" unless defined $foo;
but since that's too long people get sloppy. dor provides a nice, neat
shortcut.
$foo //= "bar";
With your thing, its (I think):
defined($foo ||= "bar");
which is nearly as involved as the current way to do it. Its not
solving the big problem as well as dor. Big strike against.
While your idea may be more flexible, flexibility is a means, not an end.
Will that flexiblity be used? What widespread problem is it going to solve
that dor does not? What's the use case?
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