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Doc Bug #79673 "roughly equivalent to" without explaining the difference
Submitted: 2020-06-04 11:21 UTC Modified: -
From: kasperheij at hotmail dot com Assigned:
Status: Open Package: Documentation problem
PHP Version: 7.4.6 OS:
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 [2020-06-04 11:21 UTC] kasperheij at hotmail dot com 
Description:
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From manual page: https://php.net/migration74.new-features
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```
<?php
$array['key'] ??= computeDefault();
// is roughly equivalent to
if (!isset($array['key'])) {
    $array['key'] = computeDefault();
}
?>
```

"// is roughly equivalent to" says that there _is_ a difference without specifying this delta.

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 [2020-06-10 18:18 UTC] alexinbeijing at gmail dot com 
Interesting question!

I can't find any difference in the actual behavior, although the bytecodes executed by the interpreter are different in either case, so it is possible that there might be some (very small) difference in performance.

See:

https://3v4l.org/Z3dPV/vld#output
https://3v4l.org/2W7W1/vld#output
 [2020-06-17 21:54 UTC] a at b dot c dot de 
The "??=" operator isn't mentioned at all in the reference part of the documentation (under neither "comparison operators", where the base '??' is given; nor "assignment operators", which description of "combined operators" hasn't been updated). One of those would be the place to describe its behaviour and how it's different from the more long-winded form.
 
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