Re: Add spaceship assignment operator
| From: | Pierre Joye | Date: | Fri, 25 Mar 2016 02:25:10 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Add spaceship assignment operator | ||
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Hi Nikita,
On Fri, Mar 25, 2016 at 12:50 AM, Nikita Popov <nikita.ppv@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi internals!
>
> For consistency, we should add a spaceship assignment operator:
>
> $a <=>= $b;
> // same as
> $a = ($a <=> $b);
I miserably fail to imagine any use case for this.
> Additionally, we should add an is-identical assignment operator:
>
> $a ==== $b;
> // same as
> $a = ($a === $b);
>
> Thank you for taking this proposal under consideration.
Besides the comment about that one from Sara, I also fail to remotely
imagine why one would need that.
In short, yes, it is consistent but it is really unreadable, at best.
--
Pierre
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