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

[Michael Selik]

On Sat, Jul 21, 2018, 6:55 PM Steven D'Aprano <steve at pearwood.info> wrote:

> On Sun, Jul 22, 2018 at 01:56:35AM +0200, Giampaolo Rodola' wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 19, 2018 at 3:39 PM Steven D'Aprano <steve at pearwood.info>
> wrote:
> > > Tens of thousands of non-English speakers have had to learn the meaning
> > > of what might as well be meaningless, random sets of symbols (to them)
> > > like "class", "import", "while" and "True". If they can do so, perhaps
> > > we English-speakers should stop complaining about how hard it is to
> > > memorise the meaning of a couple of symbols like ??.
> >
> > "class", "import", "while" and "True" are keywords, not symbols.
>
> They are only key WORDS if you are an English speaker. If your language
> doesn't use the Latin script, they don't even look like words. They look
> like gibberish: ∌≇⊅∇∫
>

Are you familiar with how people who don't speak English code? I'm curious
how they teach and use Python.
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