Re: [Vala] Vala Journal, Issue #1

[Xavier Bestel <xavier bestel free fr>]

On Wed, 2010-02-03 at 17:50 +0100, Jiří Zárevúcky wrote:
> Xavier Bestel píše v Po 01. 02. 2010 v 12:24 +0100:
> > On Mon, 2010-02-01 at 14:44 +0800, Nor Jaidi Tuah wrote:
> > > > Coalesce operator (??) is now implemented in master. ;)
> > > > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=580816
> > >
> > > May I suggest adding ??=, as in
> > > x ??= y;
> >
> > Too bad C# choose ?? as the coalescing operator. GCC already has it and
> > simply uses the traditional ?: with an empty second argument, like:
> >
> >     x = y ?: z;
>
> Interesting. I didn't know that.
>
> > which is, IMHO, quite easier to understand.
>
> Not really. It's just that you are used to it. There is nothing to
> understand about an operator, you simply need to know what it does ;)

Yes, what I mean is that when you know the traditional use of ?:, like
in cond ? val1 : val0, this special case is way more intuitive to
understand. But maybe that's just me.

        Xav