[Info] PEP 308 accepted - new conditional expressions

[Ron Adam]

Reinhold Birkenfeld wrote:

> Ron Adam

>>I think I'm going to make it a habit to put parentheses around these 
>>things just as if they were required.


> Yes, that's the best way to make it readable and understandable.
> 
> Reinhold

Now that the syntax is settled, I wonder if further discussion on the 
contextual behavior could be done?  Or maybe it was already done off 
line or in private email?

To me the advantage of a if b else c form is the easy chaining to build 
up a sum of conditional parts, where each next part is dependent on the 
previous result.

The advantage of the nested form, is it can be used in place of an 
if-elif-else structure.  But I think the (a if b else c) syntax doesn't 
match that behavior very well so I was expecting the default behavior to 
be the sequential chaining and not nested evaluation.

But of course, by explicitly placing parentheses, you can do either. 
<Shrug>

Cheers,
Ron