Project Elvis

[bauss]

On Tuesday, 7 November 2017 at 16:32:50 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad 
wrote:
> On Tuesday, 7 November 2017 at 14:08:07 UTC, bauss wrote:
>> I think we have a problem in this community to always bash 
>> down things with "It can be solved as a library.", "I don't 
>> see the value of this being added.", "I'm not going to use 
>> this feature, so nobody else will."
>
> It is considered good practice in language design to first 
> insist on a library solution and only implement it in the 
> language iff
>
> 1. it turned out to be a useful feature
>
> 2. a library implementation was inadequate
>
> Ola.

Which this operator has already proven to be in other successful 
languages.