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

[Rob Cliffe]

Or:
     x = a orelse b        # Visual Basic has a short-circuiting OrElse 
operator for boolean operands
     x = a orifNone b


On 30/09/2015 01:39, Ryan Gonzalez wrote:
> What about 'otherwise'?
>
> x = a otherwise b
>
>
> On September 29, 2015 6:57:39 PM CDT, Andrew Barnert via Python-ideas 
> <python-ideas at python.org> wrote:
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>     LOn Sep 29, 2015, at 16:27, Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
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>         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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