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

Donn Cave donn at u.washington.edu
Mon Feb 10 14:44:49 EST 2003


Quoth Laura Creighton <lac at strakt.com>:
|  Andrew Koenig:
|> Laura> This 'other project' you have where a ternary would be very
|> Laura> useful, would that be the icon-like/snoball-like parser you
|> Laura> mentioned earlier?
|> 
|> You got it.
|> 
|> I'm hoping to be able to give a talk on the subject at the ACCU conference.

| Well, _no_ _wonder_ you are hot for this change.  Parsing a language
| where each line has a True/False branch condition (which I assume
| is what you are doing) is an absolute natural for such a construct.

He's hot for it?  He only posted about 100 messages over the weekend,
which means his ardor must have flagged at times in favor of meals and such.

	Donn Cave, donn at u.washington.edu




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