I forked CPython to experiment with adding optional chaining (?.) directly to the language.
For example: name = response?.customer?.name.lower()
If response or customer is None, the expression short-circuits and evaluates to None. This isn't a library or a transpiler change, but a direct CPython modification.
A bit about the build: I used AI extensively for this experiment. Part of my motivation was to see how far I can get the modification in an unfamiliar codebase like CPython.
A couple of hours in I had a working prototype. I would appreciate feedback from people familiar with CPython internals about the implementation.
Source: https://github.com/grandimam/cpython
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50046196
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