On Sun, Jul 29, 2018 at 12:49:13PM +1200, Greg Ewing wrote: > Abe Dillon wrote: > >others countering that `person.name <http://person.name>` is not how > >periods are used in natural languages, so using other symbols in > >unintuitive ways is perfectly fine. > > Dots have been used for attribute access in so many languages > for so long that it has become the normal and expected syntax > to use. ?. is much more recent. Maybe in another 30 years, if > it has stood the test of time, it could be argued for on the > basis of familiarity, but not now.
You're talking like the syntax is used only by a handful of experimental languages with a total user-base measured in the dozens. ?. is used by some of the most commonly used languages in the world, such as C++, Objective C and PHP, as well as up-and-coming "cool" languages getting lots of industry buzz, like Swift and Dart. Its certainly more familiar now than Python's slicing syntax was when Python first started. -- Steve _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
