21 Sep
2008
21 Sep
'08
3:28 p.m.
On 21 Sep 2008, at 19:36, Terry Reedy wrote:
Josiah Carlson wrote:
break if condition else continue continue if condition else break
No that would be silly.
Why? It follows directly from conditional expressions
In my view, backwards conditional expressions were Guido's worst mistake. This proposal and comments like the above partly illustrate why I think so.
I don't know what was the motivation for including conditional expression in the language, but:
condition and x or y
is better replaced with:
x if condition else y
So from a pragmatic point of view, if-expressions work as some kind of "vaccine" against the above.
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Arnaud