On 19. 09. 22 17:58, Guido van Rossum wrote:
Personally I think returning None is a fine API design, and IMO the
concerns about this pattern are overblown. Note that X|None is no
different than the "Maybe X" pattern that functional programmers are so
fond of.
I must disagree here. With `X|Non
On 20. 09. 22 10:59, Petr Viktorin wrote:
On 19. 09. 22 17:58, Guido van Rossum wrote:
Personally I think returning None is a fine API design, and IMO the
concerns about this pattern are overblown. Note that X|None is no
different than the "Maybe X" pattern that functional programmers are
so f
As mentioned previously [0], the Steering Council decided to switch from
python-dev to Discourse (discuss.python.org).
We're aware that Discourse is not perfect. The previous mail thread [0]
lists various shortcomings, as well as some workarounds. However, we
don't see anything that would block
On Sep 20, 2022, at 02:47, Petr Viktorin wrote:
>
> Note that you can have development-related discussions anywhere, as long as
> you (eventually) include all relevant people. You're welcome to continue
> using python-dev and other mailing lists, IRC, in-person sprints, etc. But
> for PEP-leve
Hi Philipp,
That's a really good idea, and I'd really want to see it being implemented.
Having said that, I wonder how many people would actually use this concept
of "none-representing" objects. In my 10+ years of programming experience
I've never seen anybody eager to use more complex structures
