in reply to Re^6: RFC: "assignary" operator ?= :
in thread RFC: "assignary" operator ?= :

> you've shown that this is a very rare use case

Plus many of these use cases are dubious and merit a new variable name for the sake of clarity.

I'm a strong proponent of orthogonality, but I strongly doubt the costs of implementing this will ever pay off at this stage of language design.

Cheers Rolf
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