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

[Rhodri James]

On 19/07/18 07:06, Greg Ewing wrote:
> 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.

There is, actually, it's just not a long one.  C# has had null-aware 
operators for a while, for example.  I'll admit the syntax sits better 
in a C-like language, though.

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