Sept. 29, 2015
12:43 p.m.
On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 01:54:09PM -0700, Guido van Rossum wrote:
If you want to dumb down the feature so that foo?.bar.baz means just (foo?.bar).baz then it's useless and I should just reject the PEP.
In case anyone missed it, according to the PEP author Mark Haase, that's the behaviour of Dart, and it is useless: "Your interpretation of Dart's semantics is correct, and I agree that's absolutely the wrong way to do it. C# does have the short-circuit semantics that you're looking for." https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-ideas/2015-September/036495.html -- Steve