PEP-308 a "simplicity-first" alternative

[Christian Tismer]

ruud de rooij wrote:
> holger krekel <pyth at devel.trillke.net> writes:
> 
> 
>>        x and y else z
> 
> 
> as long as people are proposing alternatives, what about:
> 
>   c then x else y

Please note my copyright on this! :-)

> or with required parentheses:
>   (c then x else y)
> 
> it has the advantage that it doesn't overload existing keywords (like
> the "if" statement or the "and" operator), except for the "else"
> keyword which seems to be heavily used in many places in the language
> anyway.
> 
> to me personally,
>   print "affected %d row%s" % (rows, (rows==1 then "s" else ""))
> doesn't look too bad.
> 
> if this has already been proposed and discarded, my apologies.

Proposed but not discarded, yet.
I'm in favor of any of the two,
anyway. Better than all I saw so far.

(pythonic and small) then vote() else forget() -- chris
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