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		jackblemming 5 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Abuse of the nullish coalescing operator in JS/TS That doesn’t assign it to the shorthand local variable.

zdragnar 5 months ago [–]

It could return the given value if it doesn't throw, though, which would make using it with assignment trivial.

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