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

[Rhodri James]

On 25/07/18 23:36, David Mertz wrote:
> The fact that a while bunch have people have commented on this subthread
> while not recognizing that the semantics of the '?.' and the if blocks are
> entirely different suggests the operators are but magnets.

*Entirely* different?  Rubbish.  It's more like the difference between 
"+" and attempting to render "+" as a function using dunder methods.

I'm not keen on "?." and "?[]", but they are nothing like as bad as you 
are implying, and certainly not as bad as introducing a whole new 
concept like boxed types.

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Rhodri James *-* Kynesim Ltd