Unicode is there! Meet `⁇`.

[akimd]

Hi,

This is not an issue, just a comment.

I like _? very much: it's very unlikely to be used elsewhere, and easy to type. But, FTR, I have used the same idea, but getting wilder on Unicode. Of course, it's somewhat less convenient to type, but nice looking.

Cheers.

class Object
  def ⁇(x = nil)
    self
  end
end

class NilClass
  def ⁇(x = nil)
    if block_given?
      yield
    else
      x
    end
  end
end

nil.⁇ { puts 1; 1}.⁇{ puts 2; 2}

$ ruby /tmp/coal.rb
1

[kibiz0r]

That's pretty cool!

But I'd worry about coworkers trying to write ?? and wondering why it doesn't work.

If you use font ligatures, ?? may end up rendering the same thing as ⁇. I use FiraCode, whose entry for ?? looks almost-but-not-quite identical to ⁇.

Without ligatures:

With ligatures:

That said, if it works for you, go for it!