Re: what happened to that new isset() like language

From: Date: Thu, 08 Jul 2004 23:53:16 +0000
Subject: Re: what happened to that new isset() like language
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Adam Maccabee Trachtenberg wrote:
On Thu, 8 Jul 2004, Marc Richards wrote:
Compound Ternary operator: $a = $b ?: $c;
You realize that ternary means it takes three arguments? It has nothing to do with question marks and colons. Your new "compound ternary" operator is really a "binary" operator.
Good point. As you can probably guess, I just made it up on a whim. Like I said, I am on the fence about "marketing" it as related to the ternary operator. But the fact still remains that if we did go with this syntax, we could and probably should find a name for it. Marc

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