For review: PEP 308 - If-then-else expression

Donn Cave donn at u.washington.edu
Tue Feb 11 11:55:56 EST 2003


Quoth Erik Max Francis <max at alcyone.com>:
| Donn Cave wrote:
|> It sure doesn't bode well for what we're likely to see if one of the
|> proposals is accepted.  It's like handing out free spray paint on the
|> street corners, to improve the quality of vandalism.
|
| While that's a quaint analogy, I simply don't buy it.  How does giving
| someone the proper syntax they're looking for -- instead of obscure and
| incorrect one -- promote bad code?  Any syntax can be abused.

True - Perl enthusiasts have been making that point for years.  And
people love Perl, they're obviously getting what they want - it's like
they voted on features or something.

	Donn Cave, donn at u.washington.edu




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