Feature to get or add value to an associative array.

[Dominikus Dittes Scherkl]

On Thursday, 19 April 2018 at 08:20:02 UTC, Giles Bathgate wrote:
> On Wednesday, 18 April 2018 at 21:04:53 UTC, Jordan Wilson 
> wrote:
>> Thinking seems sound, although having a name starting with 
>> "get" does have the advantage of being more related to the 
>> existing get.
>
> Ah yes, good point. I think now we've had the discussion about 
> other use cases though that ultimately there might need to be 
> an "atomic" AddOrUpdate style function too, which I was 
> thinking could just be called 'update'. The necessity to keep 
> them all starting with get seemed less important.

How about something like "forceGet" to make clear you will get 
it, even if it wasn't there before.