[#100284] [Ruby master Bug#17211] Test failures in ruby2.7.2 and ruby3.0~preview1 — utkarsh@...

Issue #17211 has been reported by utkarsh (Utkarsh Gupta).

10 messages 2020/10/02

[#100301] [Ruby master Feature#17215] Backport for arm64 optimizations that exist for power/x86 — jaruga@...

Issue #17215 has been reported by jaruga (Jun Aruga).

10 messages 2020/10/05

[#100329] [Ruby master Bug#17220] Rails Active Job integration test fails with Ruby 3.0.0 since 2038cc6cab6ceeffef3ec3a765c70ae684f829ed — yasuo.honda@...

Issue #17220 has been reported by yahonda (Yasuo Honda).

28 messages 2020/10/07

[#100332] [Ruby master Bug#17221] Relax the Fiber#transfer's limitation — ko1@...

Issue #17221 has been reported by ko1 (Koichi Sasada).

15 messages 2020/10/07

[#100348] [Ruby master Bug#17257] Integer#pow(0, 1) returns 1, which is incorrect — universato@...

Issue #17257 has been reported by universato (Yoshimine Sato).

13 messages 2020/10/09

[#100371] [Ruby master Feature#17260] Promote pattern matching to official feature — kazuki@...

Issue #17260 has been reported by ktsj (Kazuki Tsujimoto).

10 messages 2020/10/11

[#100383] [Ruby master Feature#17261] Software transactional memory (STM) for Threads and Ractors — ko1@...

Issue #17261 has been reported by ko1 (Koichi Sasada).

14 messages 2020/10/12

[#100401] [Ruby master Bug#17263] Fiber context switch degrades with number of fibers, limit on number of fibers — ciconia@...

Issue #17263 has been reported by ciconia (Sharon Rosner).

14 messages 2020/10/15

[#100422] [CommonRuby Feature#17265] Add `Bool` module — marcandre-ruby-core@...

Issue #17265 has been reported by marcandre (Marc-Andre Lafortune).

11 messages 2020/10/19

[#100466] [Ruby master Feature#17273] shareable_constant_value pragma — ko1@...

Issue #17273 has been reported by ko1 (Koichi Sasada).

14 messages 2020/10/21

[#100471] [Ruby master Feature#17277] Make Enumerator#with_index yield row and col indices for Matrix — grzegorz.jakubiak@...

Issue #17277 has been reported by greggzst (Grzegorz Jakubiak).

8 messages 2020/10/21

[#100479] [Ruby master Feature#17278] On-demand sharing of constants for Ractor [email protected]

Issue #17278 has been reported by Dan0042 (Daniel DeLorme).

13 messages 2020/10/21

[#100534] [Ruby master Feature#17284] Shareable Proc — ko1@...

Issue #17284 has been reported by ko1 (Koichi Sasada).

16 messages 2020/10/25

[#100597] [Ruby master Feature#17288] Optimize __send__ call with a literal method name — muraken@...

Issue #17288 has been reported by mrkn (Kenta Murata).

13 messages 2020/10/27

[#100669] [Ruby master Feature#17295] Feature: Create a directory and file with Pathname#touch — get.codetriage@...

Issue #17295 has been reported by schneems (Richard Schneeman).

9 messages 2020/10/30

[#100673] [Ruby master Feature#17298] Ractor's basket communication APIs — ko1@...

Issue #17298 has been reported by ko1 (Koichi Sasada).

15 messages 2020/10/30

[#100675] [Ruby master Misc#17299] DevelopersMeeting20201120Japan — mame@...

Issue #17299 has been reported by mame (Yusuke Endoh).

11 messages 2020/10/31

[ruby-core:100250] [Ruby master Feature#13820] Add a nil coalescing operator

From: akim.demaille@...
Date: 2020-10-01 08:47:06 UTC
List: ruby-core #100250
Issue #13820 has been updated by akim (Akim Demaille).


shyouhei (Shyouhei Urabe) wrote in #note-8:
> bsarrazin (Ben Sarrazin) wrote in #note-7:
> > Kotlin has this feature, Swift has this feature, many other languages have this feature.
> 
> No.  Kotlin does not have this feature (distinguish `false` and `null`).

I disagree.  Kotlin does have the feature which is the topic of this page: a null coalescing operator (https://kotlinlang.org/docs/reference/null-safety.html#elvis-operator).  And you are rightfully stating it:

> That is why they need `?:` operator

which exactly corresponds to the proposal about `??`.

----------------------------------------
Feature #13820: Add a nil coalescing operator
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/13820#change-87837

* Author: williamn (William Newbery)
* Status: Open
* Priority: Normal
----------------------------------------
It would be nice if Ruby had an operator that only considered `nil` as false, like the null coalescing operators or "Logical Defined-Or operator" (Perl) found in some other languages. Ive seen things like `//` and `//=`m `??` and `??=`, or `?:` used for this.

This would work like `||` and `||=` for short circuiting etc. except that only `nil` is considered a false condition.

While Ruby considers only "false" and "nil" as false, with everything else true ("", [], {}, etc.) I still find occasionally people trip up when using logical or, `||` and `||=` when the value may be false.


```ruby
a = 0     || 55 # = 0 Ruby already considers 0, "", etc. as true (oter languages do differ a lot here)
a = 0     ?? 55 # = 0 So no change here
a = nil   || 55 # = 55, nil is false so right side is evaulated.
a = nil   ?? 55 # = 55, again no change
a = false || 55 # = 55, however false is false for logical or
a = false ?? 55 # = false, but its still a non-nil value
```


For example when doing things like:

```ruby
def lazy
  @lazy ||= compute_this
end


def fetch(id, **opts)
  host  = opts[:host] || default_host
  https = opts[:https] || true
  port  = opts[:port] || (https ? 443 : 80)
  ...
```

Normally the intention is to use a default value or compute an action if no value is provided, which if the value may be false then requires special handling, or sometimes is missed and results in a bug.



-- 
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/

Unsubscribe: <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
<http://lists.ruby-lang.org/cgi-bin/mailman/options/ruby-core>

In This Thread

Prev Next