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On Sat, Sep 10, 2016, at 13:26, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> The way I recall it, we arrived at the perfect syntax (using ?) and
> semantics. The issue was purely strong hesitation about whether
> sprinkling ? all over your code is too ugly for Python

I think that if there's "strong hesitation" about something being "too
ugly" it can't really be described as "the perfect syntax". IIRC there
were a couple alternatives being discussed that would have reduced the
number of question marks to one [or one per object which might be None].

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