Too much code - slicing

[Seebs]

On 2010-09-20, Antoon Pardon <Antoon.Pardon at rece.vub.ac.be> wrote:
> Not necessarily. Some of us have the impression that Guido deliberatly
> chose an ugly format for the ternary operator. Guido has alwasys been
> against a ternary operator but the requests kept coming. So eventually
> he introduced one. But the impression is that he chose an ugly format
> in the hope of discouraging people to use it.

If true, that is an *awesome* etymology for a hunk of a programming
language.

-s
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