Hi Maarten, I like the suggestion but I'm not sure if the real problem with the PEP505 is the symbol/operator used. Reading through the whole discussion I'm under the impression that the idea of the None value being treated as an indicator of the missing attribute is what prevents this PEP from happening. Apart from that I'm all for it, (probably) regardless of the syntax (as long as it remains short). Best regards, Piotr On Thu, Sep 15, 2022 at 5:07 PM Maarten Nieber <mnieber@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi, I wanted to propose replacing ? with -> in the none aware syntax. This makes the expression look like a chain, and I think that most people intuitively can understand how the chain might get broken (and what would happen in that case). For example:
zipcode = person->.address->['zipcode']
I've proposed this alternative syntax on Doug's github project, and I think he didn't like it so much (or at least, his co-contributor didn't like it), but I still wanted to propose it here as well, because I do think it's a good solution to the complaints that the ? operator looks cryptic.
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