Re: [RFC] anti-coalescing-operator

On Thu, 24 Oct 2019 at 18:21, Ken Stanley <dohpaz@gmail.com> wrote: > > Since PHP 7.0 brought forward the Null Coalescing Operator (??), writing > more succinct code for how to handle null values has been a blessing. But, > what about the inverse when you want to do something when a value is not > null? Hi Ken, It may help to give a real world example, rather than a metasyntactic one, as I can't immediately see how this would be useful. People have been expressing a concern over 'symbol soup' for similar ideas. The null colalesce scenario happens frequently enough, that it seemed to overcome the hurdle needed for acceptance. Again, giving a real world example of what you currently need to do frequently might help other people understand the need. cheers Dan