PEP308: Proposing function-call syntax

[Neil Hodgson]

John Roth:
> "Neil Hodgson" <nhodgson at bigpond.net.au> wrote in message
> ...
> >    I'd like it tobe a completely normal built in function.
> ...
> The difficulty is that other people
> reading the program might expect lazy evaluation, and get hung
> up when they update your program.

   Why would they expect lazy evaluation? Other Python functions don't
provide lazy evaluation so no one should expect it. Adding 'ifelse' (or
'iif') to the standard builtins makes it easy to use without bothering to
import a module or set up an environment so suits the people requiring
brevity.

   Neil