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What's a readability (lemmy.world)
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[–] victorz@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

you will miss it in other languages

I honestly don't like the "unless X" paradigm, because it adds the condition at the end. The ??= operator shows us what will happen much sooner.

I guess it's a matter of personal taste.