Method Project.property(name, defaultValue) is missing in API

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Current API (Gradle 1.10) provides method project.property(name) (which throws exception when property is not defined anywhere), but does not provide method project.property(name, defaultValue) .

In case when configuration property is optional and has default value, I always has to write

def value
if( project.hasProperty('name') )
    value = project.property('name');
else
    value = 'defaultValue';

For the first this is inconvenient boilerplate code, and for the second - it causes double evaluation of the property when it does exist somewhere in evaluation chain - and this is unneeded CPU load and repetitive evaluation latency.