What about more English-like syntax: X or else Y
E.g. cache.get(foo) or else expensive_call(foo) Stephan Op 29 nov. 2017 12:54 schreef "Serhiy Storchaka" <storch...@gmail.com>: 29.11.17 11:45, Steven D'Aprano пише: On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 09:14:12AM +0200, Serhiy Storchaka wrote: > >> 29.11.17 08:08, Steven D'Aprano пише: >> >>> Perl is hardly the only language with null-coalescing operators -- we >>> might better describe ?? as being familiar to C#, PHP, Swift and Dart. >>> That's two mature, well-known languages and two up-and-coming languages. >>> >> >> What is the syntax of the ternary operator in these languages? >> > > All four use: > > condition ? first : second > > for the ternary if operator. > If all four use ?, it is natural that in operators which are shortcuts of the ternary operator they use ?. But in Python the bar of introducing ? is higher. _______________________________________________ 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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