[Python-Dev] conditional expressions?

[Guido van Rossum]

> Trying to put a finger on why I think this proposed new syntax looks ugly,
> I would say that my biggest problem is that it blurs some of the visual
> distictions between statements and expressions that I find helpful
> for quickly locating the interesting parts of a piece of code.
> 
> I assume this has some parallel to list comprehensions that way,
> but I fail to see the same blatant conceptual beauty in this proposal,
> motivating the unfamiliar form.

And what exactly qualifies you as a language designer?

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)