On 22 July 2018 at 02:54, Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> wrote:
> I'll admit that the number and variety of new operators gives me some > reason to pause, but for the simplest and most obvious case, the > proposed ?? operator, I think that the fears about readability are > grossly exaggerated. Certainly *my* concerns about readability are around the other proposed operators (?[ and ?. in particular). > In my opinion, writing > > expression if expression is None else default > > is the *opposite* of Pythonic, it is verbose and the DRY violation is > inelegant (as well as inefficient). I'd much rather use: > > expression ?? default Agreed. But the PEP proposes three other operators, and it's not at all clear to me that those are such clear wins. Paul _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
