On Monday, 16 April 2018 at 12:41:07 UTC, JN wrote:
It's only one additional "in", but makes the code more explicit and clear. I think in most cases, you will want to check if you are dealing with a fetched object or a default created one, so that will complicate the function even further.
You can still use a combination of `in` and the update syntax if you want, this doesn't take that away. In the future, for a concurrent implementation of associative arrays, a way of getting or adding an element as an atomic operation becomes more important. Either way the beauty of hashed based lookups is that they average O(1), seems a shame to double that up for no reason ;)
