On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 11:26 AM Paul Moore <p.f.mo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> * Library solution works with all versions of Python > * The need for unbox is a little ugly, but arguably less so than ?. > (conceded that's a subjective view) > * Mixing ?. and . is terser than unboxing and reboxing - but are there > any real examples where that's needed? > * Having the default at the beginning rather than at the end doesn't > follow natural reading order (but again that's pretty subjective) > On the last point, it would be easy enough to change the API to make it `NoneAware(obj).a.b.c.unbox(sentinel)` if that was thought a better API than `NoneAware(obj, sentinel).a.b.c.unbox()`. Oh... and the production code should DEFINITELY spell 'sentinel' correctly if that's a part of the API. :-) -- Keeping medicines from the bloodstreams of the sick; food from the bellies of the hungry; books from the hands of the uneducated; technology from the underdeveloped; and putting advocates of freedom in prisons. Intellectual property is to the 21st century what the slave trade was to the 16th.
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