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

[Elazar]

On Wed, Jul 25, 2018 at 3:11 PM Abe Dillon <abedillon at gmail.com> wrote:

> The problem here is not whether it's explicit. It's about Readability and
> conciseness. Using symbols in place of words almost always harms
> readability in favor of conciseness.
>
> value = person.name if person.name else person
>
> almost reads like english (aside from being a weird and totally uncommon
> use case)
>
> value = person?.name
>
> Is a huge step towards the concise illegible soup of symbols that Perl is
> famous for. It's a huge No from me.
>
>
> Similarly,

Value is name of person

almost reads like english.

value = person.name

Starts to look like pearl (but does not avoid repetition; only hurts
english-like-readability) - or perhaps some other programming languages
that use similar operators, such as C#, Swift, Dart, F#, Kotlin and others.
As far as I know it is not generally considered a bad addition in any of
these languages, all of which put emphasis on readability.

Elazar
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