Hi Bram,
On Sun, Jul 21, 2019 at 5:49 AM Bram Moolenaar
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I find this operator rather obscure, I can't find it in popular languages.
> Also, it's easy enough to use the "if" construct. It's more lines, but it's
> easier to understand.
> I also haven't heard anyone ask for this, and suspect it won't be used much
> because plugin developers do not know it exists.
> Keeping the Vim script language simple is more important, in my opinion.
>
In that case, the following item needs to be removed from the todo list:
- Add ":let var ?= value", conditional assignment. Patch by Dave Eggum,
2006 Dec 11.
I found that only Ruby has an operator (||=) for the default assignment.
Other languages are referring to using the ternary operator for this.
In these cases, the operator is used only in the RHS expression.
- Yegappan
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