PEP 308: Alternative conditional operator forms

[Michele Simionato]

"Samuele Pedroni" <pedronis at bluewin.ch> wrote in message news:<3e483192_3 at news.bluewin.ch>...
> "Michele Simionato" <mis6+ at pitt.edu> ha scritto nel messaggio
> news:mailman.1044911539.4202.python-list at python.org...
> > I hate the idea of spending the next week sending 100 postings to
> > convince people than
> > "when" is better than "if", if already the majority doesn't want the
> > ternary operator
> > in any form (and maybe this is the case; or maybe not, I don't know)
> 
> The debate is already going circular.
> 
> Half-joking: I could vote no just because I had to suffer the debate <.5
> wink>
> And if it goes longer ...


I think Samuele has expressed my worries very well. I fear a long discussion
with dozens of different proposals and threads will finally annoy people,
and make them more incline to the "no, thanks" party. 

> Many on the pro-camp are crystallizing toward the proposal they like, I
> would vote no just to avoid the risk of some of them.

I understand very well this point. I wasn't seriously speaking when I said 
"I will post 100 messages to convince people that 'then' is better than 'if'",
but I fear people will do so. This would go against the "yes" party.

BTW, I am still in the "yes" party, but having seen many ugly proposals
and the critiques of the "no" party, I must say that I am now in the
line "yes, but not to everything".

Unfortunately, at this point there is no way to slow-down the discussion :-(

Erik, what do you plan to do ? I guess, you want to set up a web-page 
where people can vote the different proposals and see if there is a
proposal with a majority consensus (majority in the "yes" party, I
mean). 

Cheers,

              Michele