Too much code - slicing

[Seebs]

On 2010-09-19, MRAB <python at mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote:
> On 19/09/2010 22:32, Seebs wrote:
>> On 2010-09-19, AK<andrei.avk at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>> Because that's what 'if' and 'else' mean.

>> My point is, I don't want the order of the clauses in if/else to change.
>> If it is sometimes "if<condition>  <true-clause>  else<false-clause>", then
>> it should *ALWAYS WITHOUT EXCEPTION* be condition first, then true clause,
>> then false clause.  If it's sometimes "if condition true-clause else
>> false-clause", and sometimes "true-clause if condition else false-clause",
>> that's a source of extra complexity.
>
> [snip]
> Have you read PEP 308? There was a lot of discussion about it.

Interesting, in the historical section we see:

  The original version of this PEP proposed the following syntax:

	<expression1> if <condition> else <expression2>

	The out-of-order arrangement was found to be too uncomfortable
	for many of participants in the discussion; especially when
	<expression1> is long, it's easy to miss the conditional while
	skimming.

But apparently those objections were either unknown or disregarded when
the syntax was later adopted.

-s
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