I, too, think that this is too special a case for a dedicated syntax but so
far I prefer:
x None-or y
The meaning is more clear to me. None-or is like regular or except that y
is evaluated only if x is None.
On Thu, Nov 30, 2017 at 2:35 AM, MRAB wrote:
> On 2017-11-29 21:27, Greg Ewing wrote
How about x, y ?= iterable with ?= being the lazy assignment operator?
On Tue, Nov 28, 2017 at 9:45 AM, Steven D'Aprano
wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 06:31:28PM -0800, Mike Miller wrote:
>
> > Believe the question behind the idea was, how to grab a couple items and
> > then *stop?* If the sy