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Ars, the point is that $var = $tom || 'ed'; is much less verbose than the alternatives. More generally, it's just strange to me that || and && don't operate th

Ars, the point is that $var = $tom || 'ed'; is much less verbose than the alternatives. More generally, it's just strange to me that || and && don't operate the same in PHP as they do in every other C-style language. Neither does the ternary if, for that matter.

salathe 18y ago
PHP 5.3 (and/or 6, I forget) gives us $var = $tom ?: 'ed';
- compay 18y ago
  I love how Groovy refers to that as the "Elvis" operator.