For review: PEP 308 - If-then-else expression
Bjorn Pettersen
BPettersen at NAREX.com
Fri Feb 7 16:45:37 EST 2003
> From: Sean Ross [mailto:frobozz_electric at hotmail.com]
>
> >
> > The proposed syntax is as follows:
> >
> > <expression1> if <condition> else <expression2>
> >
>
> While I do not think this is necessary, I would like to offer
> an alternative
> syntax:
>
> <expression1> when <condition> else <expression2>
[...]
> Although adding a keyword is often a bad thing...
In fact, most of the time it makes it a non-starter. FWIW, I don't think
it is significantly better than if either (sorry).
-- bjorn
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