[Python-ideas] PEP 505: None-aware operators

[Greg Ewing]

Chris Angelico wrote:
> I'd love to hear an explanation of WHY this doesn't look like Python
> any more. For instance, is the + operator somehow wrong for Python,
> and it should have been the word "add"?

There's a very long tradition of using the symbol "+" to
represent addition, so it's something most people are
familiar with. There's no such tradition for the new
operators being proposed.

-- 
Greg