Re: null coalesce addition assignment operator ??+=

On Thu, Jan 18, 2018 at 7:13 PM, Christoph M. Becker <cmbecker69@gmx.de> wrote: > On 18.01.2018 at 23:58, Stanislav Malyshev wrote: > >>> I propose even more such operators: >>> null coalesce addition assignment ??+= (for strings and numbers) >>> null coalesce subtraction assignment ??-= >>> null coalesce increment ??++ >>> null coalesce decrement ??-- >>> null coalesce multiplication assingment ??*= >> >> I think this is taking it too far. If you want language like that, you >> always have APL :) > > Why do we discuss extensions to an operator which has still (after > nearly two years) not be implemented due to implementation difficulties? > Am I the only one who looked at the original post and assumed he was taking the piss? Similar to the jokes about spaceship assignment <=>= and equality/identicality assignment === (not to be confused with identical non-assign, which is ===) and ====. -Sara