On Sun, Jul 22, 2018 at 11:35 PM, Giampaolo Rodola' <g.rod...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Jul 22, 2018 at 2:10 PM Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> wrote: >> >> On Sun, Jul 22, 2018 at 12:13:04PM +0200, Giampaolo Rodola' wrote: >> > On Sun, Jul 22, 2018 at 3:55 AM Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> >> > wrote: >> [...] >> > > I don't think that "+" is harder to read than >> > > "standard_mathematics_operators_numeric_addition" >> > >> > >> > Please let's drop the argument that + - * / = and ? are the same. >> [...] >> But if we insist that every symbol we use is instantly recognisable and >> intuitively obvious to every programmer, we're putting the bar for >> acceptance impossibly high. > > I personally don't find "a ?? b" too bad (let's say I'm -0 about it) > but idioms such as "a?.b", "a ??= b" and "a?[3] ?? 4" look too > Perl-ish to me, non pythonic and overall not explicit, no matter what > the chosen symbol is gonna be.
Please explain what is not explicit about it. "a?.b" is very simple and perfectly explicit: it means "None if a is None else a.b". What does "not explicit" mean, other than "I don't like this code"? 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/
