[Python-ideas] PEP 505 (None coalescing operators) thoughts
Andrew Barnert
abarnert at yahoo.com
Wed Sep 30 01:57:39 CEST 2015
LOn Sep 29, 2015, at 16:27, Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
>
> Emile van Sebille wrote:
>
>> x = foo nor 'foo was None'
>
> Cute, but unfortunately it conflicts with established
> usage of the word 'nor', which would suggest that
> a nor b == not (a or b).
Agreed. If this is going to be a keyword rather than a symbol, it really has to read like English, or at least like abbreviated English, with the right meaning--something like "foo, falling back to 'foo was None' if needed". Something that reads like English with a completely different meaning is a bad idea.
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