[Python-Dev] Adding a conditional expression in Py3.0
Barry Warsaw
barry at python.org
Wed Sep 21 00:01:40 CEST 2005
On Tue, 2005-09-20 at 17:40, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> Ouch. You're bringing up another valid issue: whether to support
> "elif". I think if we go with (if ... then ... else ...) or (if ...:
> ... else: ...) we'll have to support elif as well:
I'm not so sure. Once you start writing such a complicated thing, I
think readability will favor just breaking the code out into traditional
if-blocks. I'd be happy enough with just a binary condition.
-Barry
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