PEP-308 a "simplicity-first" alternative

[Robin Munn]

Paul Foley <see at below.invalid> wrote:
> 
> I've got it!  (if x then: y else: z) with required parentheses is on
> the table -- how about answering the question of whether or not there
> should be colons in there by just dropping "then:" and "else:" and
> writing simply (if x y z)?  :-))

Hey, you weren't supposed to know about that! That's a syntax from
LisPython, which won't be released until mid-2007! How did you get
access to the time mach!*#@&*dfs89a%$#3489&($#+++NO CARRIER

Sorry about that folks, if you'd please look over here for a minute?

    *flash*

There is no time machine -- such an idea would be ridiculous. The "post"
that you think you saw was actually the result of random electrical
surges caused when a weather balloon got hit by lightning while it was
transmitting its data. The fact that it appeared to be meaningful words
was just coincidence, the million-monkeys-on-typewriters effect.

Now if you'll excuse us, we've got an alien in disguise to catch. Oops.

    *flash*

You didn't hear that.

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