alt Hacker NewsYou’re not wrong. Every language feature that gets added there’s someone who wants to stop the clock and hold the language definition in place because “people might misuse it” or “people might not be familiar with it”. It’s not language specific, it’s everywhere.
Still, enabling ?. Access on the left side of the equals (assigning) feels like a serious anti pattern to me
I struggle to even see how anyone would prefer that over an explicit if before assigning.
Having that on the right side (attribute reference) is great, but that was already available as far as I understood the post...