||= is much needed?

John Tamplin jat at google.com
Fri Jun 15 15:13:03 PDT 2012


On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 6:00 PM, Brendan Eich <brendan at mozilla.com> wrote:

> Can you give a real-world example where null rather than undefined is
> soaked up? I'm guessing DOM but guessing is bad (cf. Sherlock Holmes).
>

Wouldn't any case where you return null to mean explicitly no object be
such a case?  Ie:

var bar = lookupFoo(key)?.bar();

-- 
John A. Tamplin
Software Engineer (GWT), Google
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