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

Christian Tismer tismer at tismer.com
Sun Feb 9 19:30:08 EST 2003


Christian Tismer wrote:

Despite some ridiculous attempts to sound funny,
this is not funny. I'm going to open a serious
flame war, a flame war that has no

There is the LC construct. I never was pro, and
will probably never be.

But now there is this incredible cond-expr thing.
It has its own existence in its own respect.

/but/: If it tries to lean on further syntax which
is living on a small surface, since
LC had some postfix if/for existance already, since
I didn't keep my eyes open:
If that reasoning is *now* used to convince myriads
of newcomers that the new syntax s pythonic syntax!!!
Then I will put any and all of my power into dissing
LC's as well!!!

I do not want LC's to introduce a new direction of
obfuscated Python.

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