>On Sep 18, 2014 9:36 AM, "Johannes Schlüter" <johan...@schlueters.de> wrote: > > On Thu, 2014-09-18 at 12:41 +0100, Andrea Faulds wrote: > > We could use a function *syntax*, though, but I don’t like this idea. > > coalesce() and ifsetor() are both ugly to me, and it’s not super > > obvious what they do: > > > > var_dump(coalesce($_GET[‘foobar’], 3)); > > > > vs. > > > > var_dump($_GET[‘foobar’] ?? 3); > > > > ?? also has the advantage of being shorter. > > > If you don't now what ?? does it's far from obvious. coalesce is a term > that can be put into google and will deliver results. > > johannes
It would (I assume) be described as such on the Comparison Operators manual page, leading one to Google "coalesce". If I don't know what an unfamiliar operator does in a language, its operators documentation page is a logical first stop.
