What a strange syntax?

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It’s a trick that uses boolean short-circuit evaluation to only do the second half if the first evaluates to true. Perl has this commonly:

<something> or die

where if the first statement failed, the program ends.

Read it as

if (c == null) { c = a; a = null; }

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