• floofloof@lemmy.ca
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    1 month ago

    Another old programmer here, and I don’t see the issue. C# gets better with every release and the null coalescing assignment operator is very handy. It also exists in JavaScript.

    • LeFrog@discuss.tchncs.de
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      1 month ago

      Ruby has it as well:

      a ||= b

# which means
a = a || b
# wich is the same as
a = b if !a
# which rubyists like to write as
a = b unless a
# or as ternary
a = a ? a : b
      • Victor@lemmy.world
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        1 month ago

        That’s way too many ways of doing the same thing, yuck.

        But you’re saying the idiomatic way is to use unless, rather than the actual operator for this?

    • Victor@lemmy.world
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      1 month ago

      I feel like it boils down to understanding that operator. I’m a TypeScript developer by trade so I had no issue understanding this. 🤷‍♂️