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

[Andrew Dalke]

James J. Besemer <jb at cascade-sys.com>:
> I think you and others exagerate the cost/danger of overloading "if".
>
> Overall, defining a new interpretation for "if", one that may be
> unambiguously discriminated in all cases arguably is better than
introducing
> a new keyword (which necessarily breaks old code).

And not having the change makes new Python code more likely
to work on older Python installations.

                    Andrew
                    dalke at dalkescientific.com