Coming from the @ side (I was strong +1 on this), I have troubles seeing the
real benefits from ?? (And even more from associates): did we really have long
and complex expressions where the compactness of an operator would help?
Operators are inherently obscure (except for those that are
> my vote would go to `A otherwise B` since it's unambiguous, the case you care
> about the state of comes first, and it doesn't trip your brain up looking
> for 'if'. :)
And I’d hope “otherwise” is a rare variable name :-)
- CHB
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On Thu, 19 Jul 2018 at 14:29 Steve Dower wrote:
> [SNIP]
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> * "We could have 'else', we don't need '??'"
>
> This is the "a else 'default'" rather than "a ?? 'default'" proposal,
> which I do like the look of, but I think it will simultaneously mess
> with operator precedence and also force me
