laravel/framework — pull request #2611 by webbie (2013-10-31 16:50:38+00:00)
Title: Proposed patch for default values in Blade templates (#2599)

Here is proposed patch that defines default values using following syntax:
`{{ $name || 'Unknown' }}`
or
`{{ $name or 'Unknown' }}`

So if `$name` is not set, default value will be used.