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[-] AVincentInSpace@pawb.social 2 points 3 months ago

The second one isn't valid syntax in any programming language I'm familiar with. What does it do?

[-] dev_null@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 months ago

It's a shorthand for writing this:

variable = if (input != null) input else default

This is equivalent:

variable = input ?: default
[-] AVincentInSpace@pawb.social 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)
[-] dev_null@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

It's in Kotlin and some other languages. C# has it but there it's actually A ?? B.

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