Hey! I did not propose "?". Read the explanation in parenthesis. My whole idea that any option could be viable, as long as it does not propose reversed order notation.

Dear Mikhail, so sorry about my misunderstanding, I should read the post with fewer presuppositions... Back to the topic, this thread seems to be closed now, and in my opinion `:=` could be synthetically the best. 2018-04-17 15:11 GMT+08:00 Mikhail V <mikhailwas@gmail.com>:

On Tue, Apr 17, 2018 at 6:09 AM, Thautwarm Zhao <yaoxiansamma@gmail.com> wrote:

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3) "target ? expr" (where ? is some other word/character - IIRC "target from expr" was proposed once)

A more popular convention is to mark `?` as handling boolean variables,

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`target ? expr` could mean `expr if target else target`. Other proposal for null/boolean checking might need `?`, let's preserve `?` character for further development.

Hey! I did not propose "?". Read the explanation in parenthesis. My whole idea that any option could be viable, as long as it does not propose reversed order notation.

But anyway ":=" is better than any keyword imo.

Mikhail