PEP308: Yet another syntax proposal

Andrew Dalke adalke at mindspring.com
Tue Feb 11 15:37:22 EST 2003


Erik Max Francis
> Andrew Dalke wrote:
> > once every 5,000 lines or so) while an iff()-like builtin function
>
> I'm still puzzled over the choice of `iff' for this idea.  In maths, it
> means "if and only if," which is totally the wrong meaning for an "if
> this, otherwise that" function.
>
> Someone else, I believe, suggested `iif', but I _really_ can't see how
> that helps.

Well, I have a math degree, and I saw that 'iif' as 'iff'.

I've since decided to call it an 'ifelse()' builtin so that there
wouldn't be this possibility of confusion.

                    Andrew
                    dalke at dalkescientific.com






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