Re: Coalesce assign operator (??=) implemented
| From: | Björn Larsson | Date: | Tue, 22 Jan 2019 15:51:58 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Coalesce assign operator (??=) implemented | ||
| References: | 1 | Groups: | php.internals |
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Hi,
Excellent work! I have been waiting for this :)
Sara, I came to think on the Short ternary Assignment Operator RFC.
Would this implementation make that one more feasible, given it
passes a vote?
r//Björn Larsson
Den 2019-01-22 kl. 11:33, skrev Nikita Popov:
Hi internals, Some time ago an RFC for the ??= operator has been accepted: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/null_coalesce_equal_operator However, due to implementation difficulties, the RFC hasn't landed since then. I'm happy to say that these difficulties are resolved now, and ??= has landed with https://github.com/php/php-src/commit/a50198d0fef652ca052cda642d6e98a9101eb73f . To summarize the important ??= semantics: $a ??= $b is roughly equivalent to $a ?? ($a = $b). In $a[foo()] ??= bar() the function foo() will be evaluated exactly once, and bar() will be evaluated iff $a[foo()] is null (or unset). Regards, Nikita