This operator is a very long way from becoming part of the language, if it ever does. It's from a DRAFT proposal that hasn't even been accepted for consideration yet, let alone inclusion.
Thanks! When I first read it I thought some new feature just dropped, and then I saw your comment 😂 The repo actually says, "This proposal will change to try-expressions as its a more idiomatic apporach to this problem." And they're looking for someone to help rewrite it...
Yeah and then there's the fact that, like all new ecmascript features preparing to land, it will be supported for years, by being transpiled into the fuckton of "try-catch layers" it's supposed to mitigate. For something that can be facilitated by a trivial utility function (well, a monad ideally), adding a new operator to the language is a completely deranged idea.
Not to mention that it would be quite confusing and typo-prone to have the actual token '?=' used in this way considering ??= already exists and is totally unrelated
This operator is a very long way from becoming part of the language, if it ever does. It's from a DRAFT proposal that hasn't even been accepted for consideration yet, let alone inclusion.
Thanks! When I first read it I thought some new feature just dropped, and then I saw your comment 😂 The repo actually says, "This proposal will change to
try-expressionsas its a more idiomatic apporach to this problem." And they're looking for someone to help rewrite it...guess there'll still be a long way to go.
Articles like this always seem to gloss over this point which is really annoying.
Yeah and then there's the fact that, like all new ecmascript features preparing to land, it will be supported for years, by being transpiled into the fuckton of "try-catch layers" it's supposed to mitigate. For something that can be facilitated by a trivial utility function (well, a monad ideally), adding a new operator to the language is a completely deranged idea.
Not to mention that it would be quite confusing and typo-prone to have the actual token '?=' used in this way considering ??= already exists and is totally unrelated
Thanks for the heads up. 👍
Can you link the proposal? I can't find it... Or do you know the name they're giving this new operator?
github.com/arthurfiorette/proposal...
Thank you!