[Python-ideas] Null coalescing operators

[Ryan Gonzalez]

What about "apply"? It's the closest thing to "fmap" I can think of that won't coblnfuse people...

On September 18, 2015 6:44:31 PM CDT, "Sven R. Kunze" <srkunze at mail.de> wrote:
>
>
>On 19.09.2015 01:18, Erik wrote:
>> Apologies for the self-reply. I just wanted to clarify a couple of 
>> things.
>>
>> On 18/09/15 23:56, Erik wrote:
>>> If the foo operator uses the magic method "__foo__" to mean "return
>an
>>> object to be used in place of the operand should it be considered
>...
>>> false? [or some other definition - I'm not sure]"
>>
>> Not "false", I think. The "foo" operator is meant to mean "I will go 
>> on to use the resulting object in any way imaginable and it must cope
>
>> with that and return a value from any attempts to use it that will 
>> generally mean 'no'" (*).
>>
>>> If that was a postfix operator which has a high precedence, then:
>>>
>>> bar = foo?
>>> bar.isoformat()
>>>
>>> and the original syntax suggestion:
>>>
>>> bar = foo?.isoformat()
>>
>> Which is clearly wrong - the first part should be:
>>
>> baz = foo?
>> bar = baz.isoformat()
>>
>> E.
>>
>> (*) Should we call the operator "shrug"?
>
>Maybe monad?
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