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On Fri, Dec 1, 2017 at 5:24 AM, Random832 <random832@fastmail.com> wrote:

You're completely missing the context of the discussion, which was the
supposed reason that a \*new\* function call operator, with the proposed
syntax function?(args), that would short-circuit (based on the
'function' being None) could not be implemented. The whole thing doesn't
make sense to me anyway, since a new operator could have its own
sequence different from the existing one if necessary.

​Right, I was clearly misinterpreting the wording in the PEP. It's a bit ambiguous and should probably make explicit that "evaluate the function" isn't just the common vernacular for "call the function".