There's a good number of upvotes for it. It would be nice.
#!/JoePea

On Thu, Apr 30, 2020 at 1:13 PM Jordan Harband <ljh...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> See https://github.com/tc39/proposal-optional-chaining/issues/18
>
> On Thu, Apr 30, 2020 at 1:08 PM #!/JoePea <j...@trusktr.io> wrote:
>>
>> I was hoping to avoid things like
>>
>> ```js
>> const baz = this.foo?.bar?.baz
>> if (baz) baz.lorem = 123
>> ```
>>
>> #!/JoePea
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 30, 2020 at 1:04 PM #!/JoePea <j...@trusktr.io> wrote:
>> >
>> > This is perfectly fine:
>> >
>> > ```js
>> > this.foo?.bar?.setBaz(123)
>> > ```
>> >
>> > but this is not:
>> >
>> > ```js
>> > this.foo?.bar?.baz = 123
>> > ```
>> >
>> > Why is that not allowed, but function calls are?
>> >
>> > I find myself often wanting to do assignments like that. When I am
>> > auto-completing things in VS Code (TypeScript), it automatically and
>> > awesomely inserts the `?` characters, only to fail once I write the
>> > assignment part.
>> >
>> > #!/JoePea
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