Re: [RFC Proposal] Null Coalesce Equal Operator

Hi Midori, Midori Kocak wrote:

Forgive my rookieness and let me introduce my first RFC here: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/null_coalesce_equal_operator <https://wiki.php.net/rfc/null_coalesce_equal_operator>

I think this is a reasonable proposal. I had foreseen that we might add a ??= operator some day when I wrote the original RFC for the ?? operator. I do have one thing to add, though. It's something of a nitpick, but the name ought to be the "null-coalescing assignment operator". This would follow the convention of referring to +=, -= etc. as compound/combined assignment operators[1][2], not "equal" operators (which sounds more like what == and === do, to me) and avoids the mistake ("coalesce" instead of "coalescing") that I originally made in my RFC for ??.[3] I think that RFC naming is important, because the name the author chooses for a feature tends to be the one that ends up in the manual. Anyway, thank you for your RFC! [1] http://php.net/manual/en/language.operators.assignment.php [2] https://github.com/php/php-langspec/blob/master/spec/10-expressions.md#compound-assignment [3] https://blog.ajf.me/2015-12-07-poorly-named-rfcs -- Andrea Faulds https://ajf.me/