On Thu, Sep 06, 2007 at 01:40:20PM -0700, Jonathan Lang wrote: : So 'orelse' is exactly like '//', except that the result of the left : side gets passed to the right side as an error message. Is there a : reason to make this exception, as opposed to altering '//' to behave : exactly like 'orelse' does?
How 'bout, it's convenient to have the simpler defaulting semantics when you don't care what kind of undefined value is on the left. Larry
