Geez. --Guido (mobile)
On Nov 1, 2016 8:10 PM, "Chris Angelico" <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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/ >
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