On 6/24/14, 4:43 PM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
On 2014-06-24 18:52, Yota wrote:
On Sunday, 22 June 2014 at 08:15:45 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
On 6/21/14, 3:38 PM, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d wrote:
On Sat, Jun 21, 2014 at 03:26:45PM -0700, Andrei Alexandrescu via
Digitalmars-d wrote:
On 6/19/14, 1:29 PM, Etienne wrote:
writeln(currAssignment.safeDeref.typeInfo.ident.or("meh"));
"or" is really nice and terse. I think we should add that to std.
safeDeref isn't the best choice of name.
[...]
What's your suggestion?
That we add "or" to std and find a name for safeDeref that doesn't use
the word "safe" in a confusing manner. -- Andrei
C# calls the ?? operator the "null-coalescing" operator. I have
absolutely no idea why, but that does give precedence for calling it
"coalesce".
In CoffeeScript it's called The Existential Operator. It's also known as
The Elvis Operator.
And in Ruby it's just "||=". How more intuitive can it get?
a = nil
a ||= 1
The "or" that you are discussing here is just an "||" in Ruby:
b = nil || 1
