On Mon, 31 Jan 2000 gvwilson@nevex.com wrote:
It (?:) would allow you to incorporate logic into expressions. There are contexts where only expressions are allowed, such as: - lambdas - DTML expr attributes in which I'd very much like to incorporate tests.
Don't know much about DTML, but believe that being able to put conditionals in lambdas would make the latter much more useful.
Giving Guido one less reason to dislike ?: <wink> Seriously, I disagree with the basic premise of you and Jim: you can *already* have control structures inside experessions with and/or, so even for Jim's twisted meanings for "add new functionality to the language" it's not true.
Is anything easier with ?: --- yes.
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