Xavier Bestel wrote: > On Mon, 2010-02-01 at 14:44 +0800, Nor Jaidi Tuah wrote: >>> Coalesce operator (??) is now implemented in master. ;) >>> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=580816 >> May I suggest adding ??=, as in >> x ??= y; > > Too bad C# choose ?? as the coalescing operator. GCC already has it and > simply uses the traditional ?: with an empty second argument, like: > > x = y ?: z; > > which is, IMHO, quite easier to understand. > > Xav
There's a difference between Vala/C#/Java and C: only real boolean expressions are allowed as conditions. Allowing a non-boolean expression as first argument of the ?: operator in one case would be inconsistent. So I think the null-check should have its own operator to avoid confusion. Best regards, Frederik _______________________________________________ Vala-list mailing list Vala-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/vala-list
