Sept. 10, 2016
10:15 p.m.
On Sat, Sep 10, 2016, at 13:26, Guido van Rossum wrote:
The way I recall it, we arrived at the perfect syntax (using ?) and semantics. The issue was purely strong hesitation about whether sprinkling ? all over your code is too ugly for Python
I think that if there's "strong hesitation" about something being "too ugly" it can't really be described as "the perfect syntax". IIRC there were a couple alternatives being discussed that would have reduced the number of question marks to one [or one per object which might be None].