Re: [Fish-users] Idiomatic default values for functions

2014-07-13 Thread Kevin Ballard
There’s no syntax for it, but you can do something like set -l arg $argv[1]; test -z $arg; and set arg “default” -Kevin On Jul 9, 2014, at 3:49 AM, Michael Stillwell wrote: > Does fish have a short equivalent to bash's "use default values" (i.e. > ${parameter:-word})? I'd like to use this

[Fish-users] Idiomatic default values for functions

2014-07-09 Thread Michael Stillwell
Does fish have a short equivalent to bash's "use default values" (i.e. ${parameter:-word})? I'd like to use this to provide default values to functions without having to write out laborious if ... else ... end chains. Michael