On Wed, Nov 2, 2016 at 11:09 AM, Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> wrote: > I don't know when I would ever want to actually do this in practice, but > allowing the ?. operator to magically effect code outside of the > parentheses definitely counts as "spooky action at a distance". Guido's > rule of "everything to the right" is easy to reason about if "to the > right" ends where the parenthised expression ends. >
We already expect "to the left" and "to the right" to end based on operator precedence rules. Parentheses are used to control operator precedence. It would surprise people *greatly* if they didn't bound the effect of the question mark. ChrisA _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
