Any opinions about adding a Ruby-like ||= operator to EcmaScript?

[Behrang Saeedzadeh]

I am not very fussed about the syntax as long as the facility is in the
language. Any chance this gets included in EcmaScript 2016?


On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 10:26 PM Claude Pache <claude.pache at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
>
> > Le 29 juil. 2015 à 13:23, Behrang Saeedzadeh <behrangsa at gmail.com> a
> écrit :
> >
> > For example:
> >
> >     obj.property ||= "value";
> >
> > This would only assign "value" to obj.property if property is undefined
> or null.
>
> For me, that syntax suggests strongly: Assign `value` to `obj.property`
> if  `obj.property` is falsy. I'd rather want to write:
>
>     obj.property ??= value
>
> where `??` could also be used as binary operator with the semantics you've
> guessed.
>
> —Claude
>
>
> > --
> > Best regards,
> > Behrang Saeedzadeh
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Best regards,
Behrang Saeedzadeh
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