Re: Pike 8.0 RC1

Excerpts from Sup Auto-generated Fake Sender's message of 2014-11-03 10:40:01 +0100:
> > 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

i just discovered that coffeescript has this feature. pity about the conflict.

alternatives?

foo??(bar);
foo(?bar);

greetings, martin.

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