there were no suggestions. Do you have one?

> On 24 Mar 2016, at 16:36, Björn Larsson <bjorn.x.lars...@telia.com> wrote:
> 
> Den 2016-03-13 kl. 02:59, skrev Andrea Faulds:
>> Hi Midori,
>> 
>> Midori Kocak wrote:
>>> Forgive my rookieness and let me introduce my first RFC here: 
>>> https://wiki.php.net/rfc/null_coalesce_equal_operator 
>>> <https://wiki.php.net/rfc/null_coalesce_equal_operator>
>> 
>> I think this is a reasonable proposal. I had foreseen that we might add a 
>> ??= operator some day when I wrote the original RFC for the ?? operator.
>> 
>> I do have one thing to add, though. It's something of a nitpick, but the 
>> name ought to be the "null-coalescing assignment operator". This would 
>> follow the convention of referring to +=, -= etc. as compound/combined 
>> assignment operators[1][2], not "equal" operators (which sounds more like 
>> what == and === do, to me) and avoids the mistake ("coalesce" instead of 
>> "coalescing") that I originally made in my RFC for ??.[3] I think that RFC 
>> naming is important, because the name the author chooses for a feature tends 
>> to be the one that ends up in the manual.
>> 
>> Anyway, thank you for your RFC!
>> 
>> [1] http://php.net/manual/en/language.operators.assignment.php
>> [2] 
>> https://github.com/php/php-langspec/blob/master/spec/10-expressions.md#compound-assignment
>> [3] https://blog.ajf.me/2015-12-07-poorly-named-rfcs
> 
> Any conclusion on naming of operator, remain or change?
> 
> Regards //Björn
> 


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