elvis pattern refinement (was Syntax patterns)

[Stephen Colebourne]

2009/4/24 Ruslan Shevchenko <rssh at gradsoft.com.ua>:
> But let's return to original question:
>
> is 'safe-method call': i. e. optimization of pattern
>  (a==null ? b : a.method(...))
>  // Which can be rewritten as
>    a?.method() ?: b
>  using operators, defined in elvis, can be counted as entry for
> optimization as result of elvis proposal, or not ?

This could be coded as

  a?.method() ?: b

however, that would be semantically different in meaning (as now b is
returned if method() returns null, which wasn't originally the case)

Thus, this construct is invalid for Elvis, Null-safe and the
combination of the two.

Stephen