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On Sat, 19 Nov 2022 09:06:03 +0000 Dave Mitchell <davem@iabyn.com> wrote: > I'm happy for you to proceed. Obviously I think the proposed syntax > is a a good idea, since I proposed it(!) (having first stolen it), so > I guess it would be be good to get feedback from others first. I now have an initial PR at https://github.com/Perl/perl5/pull/20526 > I too am less bothered about the ||= variant, but I suggested it > because it should be easy to implement while implementing //=, and so > we might as well, for completeness. The tricky part was reshaping the grammar rule so it returns an OP_ARGDEFELEM, to make it easy to add the flags on it. Having done that, recognising ||= as well was a tiny addition; so I added it while there. I don't really plan to make a big thing of it in examples, docs, etc.. but it's interesting while there. -- Paul "LeoNerd" Evans leonerd@leonerd.org.uk | https://metacpan.org/author/PEVANS http://www.leonerd.org.uk/ | https://www.tindie.com/stores/leonerd/Thread Previous | Thread Next