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

[Andrew Barnert]

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.