Proposed PEP for a Conditional Expression

Erik Max Francis max at alcyone.com
Thu Sep 13 11:18:29 EDT 2001


piet at cs.uu.nl wrote:

> > The colon is too overloaded in C, but the semicolon isn't?  At least
> > one
> > semicolon appears in every C statement.
> 
> False! The semicolon is used to make a statement out of an expression.

How does that contradict what I said?  What I said was completely
accurate.  Each statement contains at least one semicolon.

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