RE: Pike 8.0 RC1

"Per Hedbor () @ Pike (-) importm?te f?r mailinglistan" <[email protected]> Mon, 3 Nov 2014 09:40:01 +0000 (UCT)

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.lang.pike.user
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> Safe index is nice, but if adding a ?(), it would be more useful.
> X?(ARGS) should be eauivalent to ((auto _ = X),(_ && _(ARGS)))

Yes, I agree. The major issue is that this conflicts (somewhat) with
the ?: syntax (this is also the reason for the lack of a .? operator).

As an example: a?(float)a:42.0