On 29 September 2015 at 18:15, Eric Snow <ericsnowcurrently@gmail.com> wrote:
Personally I usually keep the defaults handling separate, like so: [...] ...and given the alternatives presented here, I'd likely continue doing so. To me the others are less distinct about how defaults are set and invite more churn if you have to do anything extra down the road when composing a default. Regardless, YMMV.
Agreed, there's many ways, and the new operator doesn't really add a huge amount (other than yet another way of doing things).
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In practice, of course, I never write a default() function at the moment, I just use multi-line ifs. Whether that means I'd use an or? operator, I don't know. Probably - but I'd likely consider it a bit of a "too many ways of doing the same thing" wart at the same time...
Right. And it doesn't really pay for itself when measured against that cost.
Precisely. Paul