Loop-and-a-half (Re: Curious assignment behaviour)

[Joal Heagney]

Tim Peters wrote:

> If people sign off on taking "then" as a new keyword, I think the chances
> are good that we could get
> 
>     x = if e1 then e2 else e3
> 
> into 2.2b1.  That's the only obvious spelling, hence the only truly Pythonic
> way to spell it.  Other languages spelling it that way range from Algol-60
> (Guido's first intense language affair) to Haskell.

> less-thinking-will-get-there-faster<wink>-ly y'rs  - tim

Well I just did another grep -r "then" *.py on /usr/lib/python2.1, and I
couldn't find any use of "then" outside of comments.
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