Operators ||= and &&=

[Brendan Eich]

On May 5, 2009, at 12:16 PM, liorean wrote:

>> On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 11:37 AM, Peter Michaux <petermichaux at gmail.com 
>> > wrote:
>>> function(a=1, b="defaultVal");
>>>
>>> And in this syntax will default values be used if the parameter is
>>> falsey or only if it is undefined?
>
> 2009/5/5 Mark S. Miller <erights at google.com>:
>> Or only if it is absent?

That's how http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=harmony:default_parameter_values 
  specifies it. Only if absent is an actual argument count vs. formal  
parameter count check.


> I've been out of the ECMAScript world for many months now, but IIRC in
> ES3 all formal parameters that are absent gets initiated to the value
> undefined. Not sure which side of the function call border that
> initiation takes place on, though.

See http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=harmony:default_parameter_values 
  -- callee side.


> Wouldn't special casing absence
> from undefined value effectively introduce another state for a
> variable to be in, though, since the behaviour is indistinguishable in
> user code in ES3?

No, no added state is required beyond the existing actual vs. formal  
parameter counts.

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