Whats wrong with defining a user-level function?
actualy in this special case i have been whishing for an operator for ages, maybe a modification of the good old ternary:
$foo = ?$bar : "default";
or
$foo ?= "default";
;)
-- Hartmut Holzgraefe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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