Conditional expressions (again)

[Erik Max Francis]

gbreed at cix.compulink.co.uk wrote:

> I don't remember "elif" being generally supported.  Or a good argument
> against
> 
>                 x = b if a else (d if c else e)
> 
> unless you count "P*rl has something like that" as a good
> counter-argument.

Nested conditional expressions get extremely hard to read very quickly. 
If the syntax can support this directly and more clearly and people
support it, that seems a much better option.  (Not that I use
conditional operators for complex comparisons anyway.)

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