var foo = function(a){return a && a.data.items || []};
foo(null);
foo({data: "bar"});
foo({data: { items: ["bar", "baz"]} });
On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 9:44 AM, Hassan Schroeder <hassan at webtuitive.com> wrote:
> On 11/11/11 4:45 AM, Terry Riegel wrote:
>
>> It would be nice if this did the same thing...
>>
>> function(a){return a.data.items || []};
>
> What makes you think it doesn't? That syntax seems to work fine for
> me in a quick test in a Chrome console:
>
>> var x = function(a){ return a || []; }
> undefined
>> x("foo")
> "foo"
>> x()
> []
>> x(null)
> []
>
> Or am I misunderstanding your goal?
>
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