It's a feature that's often be requested. I think Ruby's got an equivalent with ||=, and it's often the reference people give when exploring our Elvis operator coming from a ruby background in particular. I've had several opportunities where I could've used this operator. It might make for a nice addition.
Guillaume On Tue, Nov 22, 2016 at 3:14 PM, Daniel Sun <realblue...@hotmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > Marcin Erdmann proposed the new operator ?=, e.g. a ?= "foo" is > equivalent of a = a ?: "foo". > > I like his idea, what do you think about it? > > Cheers, > Daniel.Sun > > > > -- > View this message in context: http://groovy.329449.n5. > nabble.com/PROPOSAL-new-operator-tp5736886.html > Sent from the Groovy Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > -- Guillaume Laforge Apache Groovy committer & PMC Vice-President Developer Advocate @ Google Cloud Platform Blog: http://glaforge.appspot.com/ Social: @glaforge <http://twitter.com/glaforge> / Google+ <https://plus.google.com/u/0/114130972232398734985/posts>
