A code from the \Magento\Catalog\Model\ResourceModel\Category::_getMaxPosition() method can be simplified from 5 lines to 1

dmitry_fedyuk · January 26, 2016, 3:26pm


$position = $connection->fetchOne($select, $bind);
if (!$position) {
    $position = 0;
}
return $position;

The code can be simplified to

return $connection->fetchOne($select, $bind) ?: 0;