On Wed, Jul 25, 2018 at 3:11 PM Abe Dillon <abedil...@gmail.com> wrote:
> The problem here is not whether it's explicit. It's about Readability and > conciseness. Using symbols in place of words almost always harms > readability in favor of conciseness. > > value = person.name if person.name else person > > almost reads like english (aside from being a weird and totally uncommon > use case) > > value = person?.name > > Is a huge step towards the concise illegible soup of symbols that Perl is > famous for. It's a huge No from me. > > > Similarly, Value is name of person almost reads like english. value = person.name Starts to look like pearl (but does not avoid repetition; only hurts english-like-readability) - or perhaps some other programming languages that use similar operators, such as C#, Swift, Dart, F#, Kotlin and others. As far as I know it is not generally considered a bad addition in any of these languages, all of which put emphasis on readability. Elazar
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