Re: [Vala] Safe call operator

[jim yorba org]

Do you know the reason why it was rejected?  I searched for more information but could only find the 
proposals, not the rejection.

A null-safe operator (an "elvis" operator) seems like a natural complement to the nullable operator already 
in Vala.

-- Jim

On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 4:58 AM, Luca Bruno <lethalman88 gmail com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 1:34 PM, Artem Tarasov <lomereiter googlemail com>wrote:
>
> > There's so-called 'safe call operator' in Kotlin programming language
> > which, when used in chains, resembles 'Maybe' monad from Haskell. Thus it
> > makes easier to work with nullable types in some cases. Is it possible to
> > add such a feature to Vala?
>
> Adding a feature is always possible, but it must be discussed first :-)
> As a starter, Java rejected that syntax.
>
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