PEP 1441: The other if-then-else issue

[Russell Wallace]

On 10 Feb 2003 23:17:18 +1100, Tim Churches <tchur at optushome.com.au>
wrote:

>While the international Python community passionately debates PEP 308,
>we should not forget another issue which is worth getting hot under the
>collar about: the looming attack on Iraq over weapons of mass
>destruction (WMD). The US position (at least, this week's position)
>appears to be :
>
>if not (immediate_evidence_of_past_destruction_of_WMD) then
>(fire_3000_cruise_missiles_at_Baghdad) else
>(find_some_other_reason_to_bomb_Baghdad)

Sounds like a good idea to me.

>If you think that the current set of optimal solutions to the various
>problems (depending on who you are) posed by Saddam Hussein's regime
>does not include the firing thousands of cruise missiles at Baghdad, or
>the invasion of Iraq by US and allied ground forces - both of which will
>surely result in the loss of tens or hundreds of thousands of innocent,
>non-combatant Iraqi lives - then please take

...your idiotic trolling to another newsgroup.

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