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

holger krekel pyth at devel.trillke.net
Mon Feb 10 15:47:26 EST 2003


Donn Cave wrote:
> Quoth Michael Hudson <mwh at python.net>:
> | "Samuele Pedroni" <pedronis at bluewin.ch> writes:
> |> I sympathize with those against for readability reasons, but I ask
> |> them to think whether they really not prefer the proposals over the
> |> workarounds because the latter are used.
> |
> | This has been an eye-opener for me: people really do write
> |
> |     x and y or b
> |
> | I don't know whether I'm more surprised or disappointed.
> 
> It sure doesn't bode well for what we're likely to see if one of the
> proposals is accepted.  It's like handing out free spray paint on the
> street corners, to improve the quality of vandalism.

QOTW if it weren't too biased :-)





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