[Python-Dev] Re: ternary operators (fwd)

[Moshe Zadka]

On Mon, 31 Jan 2000 gvwilson@nevex.com wrote:

> So I asked Simon Peyton-Jones and Phil Wadler how languages other than C
> and its derivatives did conditional expressions; one of the replies was:
<snipped>
> Perhaps this would be a good time to ask around and see what else people
> have in their back pockets?

Adding nothing to the discussion, let me just mention how Scheme (my
second favourite language) does it:

(if bool true-result else-result)

Well, of course this isn't relevant to Python because statements are not
expressions, but there might be something in it: if could be also used
as a function taking three arguments:

print if(long_answer, "Very good!", "correct")

I have no idea how this will play with the parser. Anyone?
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