On Fri, Feb 12, 2021 at 8:25 PM David Rodrigues <david.pro...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello! > > It is just a suggestion to be discussed. > > A lot of places on my projects I have codes like: > > $companies = $user->companies->count() > ? new Collection($user->companies) > : null; > > So $companies will be null except if the user has companies. > > My suggestion is create some kind of inline conditional to works like that: > > $companies = $user->companies->count() => new Collection($user->companies); > > If the conditional ($user->companies->count()) is true, then will return > the value (after =>), else will be null. > > In my current work project, I have more than 100+ occurrences like that. > > So some more examples: > > $userCategory ? $userCategory->getTitle() : null > -> It could be optimized to the new nullsafe operator > $userCategory?->getTitle() > > return $languageFirst instanceof LanguageExperience > ? $languageFirst->title : null; > -> This not, with my suggestion we have: > return $languageFirst instanceof LanguageExperience => > $languageFirst->title; > > The => is just a suggestion, other options using existing keywords is: > return expr() then output(); > return expr(): output(); > > I do not know if other languages support something like that. > > Thanks! > There's a limited budget for this kind of syntax sugar, and we already have ?:, ??, ??=, ?->. I don't think there's space for yet another shorthand conditional syntax. Note that => cannot be used for this purpose, as it is already used for array literals. Regards, Nikita
