Hello, On Sat, 6 Feb 2021 19:57:33 -0500 Jonathan Crall <erotemic@gmail.com> wrote:
I ran into another case where I wish I had some sort of conditional if.
Right, conditional "if" is exactly what we miss in Python. Yes, it's a typo, but it's proverbial Freudian slip, shows what stays behind such proposals - un[spell]checked desire to add some tautology to the language.
Wasting that horizontal space is not an option
Reading things like this, it seems that some people just can't get at peace with Python's indentation-based syntax, and would jump in no time to an alternative syntax which allows to smack indentation. It was also said many times, that it you want some trivial variety on the existing language, pick up your favorite macro package and go ahead, coding trivial macros in trivial. -- Best regards, Paul mailto:pmiscml@gmail.com