On 28/05/2022 03:36, Craig Francis wrote:
In this case, two of my clients are considering the cost of modifying their code (by adding a load of `?? ''` everywhere), and they would rather avoid that (time consuming, and makes their code more complicated).
Alternatively, they may wish to define their own functions that do take
null and then run a find / replace or rector rule to convert them over.
I would still recommend ?? because it's the most future proof.
We have passed two RFCs in recent months which will eliminate
default-nulls in 2 of the 3 major variable sources in the engine (the
remaining one being arrays), and that too may eventually find itself
promoted.
If it's a framework, I would suggest adding methods for explicitly
getting a string that defaults to '' instead of null.
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