Re: Construct Request

From:	Andi Gutmans	Date:	Thu, 15 Apr 2004 21:37:46 +0000
Subject:	Re: Construct Request
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At 02:21 PM 4/15/2004 -0400, Sean Coates wrote:

Andi Gutmans wrote:
It could be implemented but I don't see the big advantage over $bar ? 0 : $base It's one character... oes to GCC and its C extension).
    $bar ? : $baz;
    If $bar evaluates to true, the expression evaluates to $bar
    or to 0, respectively.
I think we're unclear on this..
What seems right to me: <?php $variable = $foo ?: $bar; // is the same as if ($foo) $variable = $foo; else $variable = $bar; ?>

I have to read closer next time. Personally I prefer finding a user-land solution and not a new syntax. All these "weird" operators look like all of the weird Perl stuff. Andi