On 25/07/18 23:36, David Mertz wrote:
The fact that a while bunch have people have commented on this subthread while not recognizing that the semantics of the '?.' and the if blocks are entirely different suggests the operators are but magnets.
*Entirely* different? Rubbish. It's more like the difference between "+" and attempting to render "+" as a function using dunder methods.
I'm not keen on "?." and "?[]", but they are nothing like as bad as you are implying, and certainly not as bad as introducing a whole new concept like boxed types.
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