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

Donn Cave donn at u.washington.edu
Mon Feb 10 14:39:15 EST 2003


Quoth Michael Hudson <mwh at python.net>:
| "Samuele Pedroni" <pedronis at bluewin.ch> writes:
|> I sympathize with those against for readability reasons, but I ask
|> them to think whether they really not prefer the proposals over the
|> workarounds because the latter are used.
|
| This has been an eye-opener for me: people really do write
|
|     x and y or b
|
| I don't know whether I'm more surprised or disappointed.

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.

	Donn Cave, donn at u.washington.edu




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