[Python-ideas] PEP 505 (None coalescing operators) thoughts

[Terry Reedy]

On 9/28/2015 3:38 PM, Emile van Sebille wrote:
> On 9/28/2015 10:24 AM, Andrew Barnert via Python-ideas wrote:
>> On Sep 28, 2015, at 09:47, Sven R. Kunze
>> <srkunze at mail.de> wrote:
> <snip>
>
>>> I wouldn't make a mountain out of a molehill. Other existing
>>> operators have the same issue.
>>
>> Which other keywords or symbols may be either a binary operator or
>> part of a ternary operator depending on context?
>
> These come to mind:
>
> a = b = c
> a < b < c

These are chained comparisons, which get separated, not ternary 
operators. a < b = c < e > f in g is also syntactically valid, and I 
don't think anything is gained by calling it a pentanary operator.

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy