Oct. 1, 2015
8:37 p.m.
On Thu, Oct 1, 2015, at 15:48, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
I don't see what this has to do with null aware attribute access.
If I wrote:
(spam?.eggs.cheese).__class__
the obvious intention is that it should evaluate like:
temp = spam?.eggs.cheese temp.__class__
Why would you need to do that, though? What's the practical use case for this, that you need to do it frequently enough to want a way to do it without using a temporary? Or do you think that, as the thing that it short-circuits to the end of, "same atom_expr unbroken by parentheses" [a concept which, I remind you, *does not exist* in AST] is somehow simpler or easier to explain than "same chain of Attribute/Call/Subscript operations"?