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

[Roy Smith]

Dale Strickland-Clark <dale at riverhall.NOTHANKS.co.uk> wrote:
 
> I really don't have much sympathy for that argument. If you want to
> understand a language, you will need to know it.

This started out with you saying that if I don't use a feature, its 
existance won't affect me one way or the other.  My point was that it 
will affect me.  Even if I don't use it, I'll need to learn it to 
understand the code that you write.