||= is much needed?

[Wes Garland]

> This breaks from JS's C-inspired assignment operators, but perhaps we can
live with it.

FWIW -- I was confused when I first read ||=, I thought it was supposed to
be some kind of Boolean-coercing variant on |=. Now I see that it is more
like ?= from GNU make.

What do you think of GCC's ?: operator? It is basically a special form of
the ternary operator, and while not the same as your propsal, it addresses
many of the same use cases.

(I've been happy with it for a long time).

Wes

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