On 29 October 2016 at 01:46, Ryan Gonzalez <rym...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Oct 28, 2016 3:30 AM, "Nick Coghlan" <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote: >> *snip* >> 4. Do we collectively agree that "?then" and "?else" would be >> reasonable spellings for such operators? > > Personally, I find that kind of ugly. What's wrong with just ? instead of > ?else?
When you see the expression "LHS ? RHS", there's zero indication of how to read it other than naming the symbol: "LHS question mark RHS". By contrast, "LHS ?then RHS" and "LHS ?else RHS" suggest the pronunciations "LHS then RHS" and "LHS else RHS", which in turn are potentially useful mnemonics for the full expansions "if LHS exists then RHS else LHS" and "LHS if LHS exists else RHS". (Knowing that "?" indicates an existence check is still something you'd have to learn, but even without knowing that, the keywords could get you quite some way towards correctly understanding what the construct means) Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
