[Python-Dev] vox populii illiterati

Michael Hudson mwh@python.net
Mon, 10 Feb 2003 13:55:27 +0000


Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> writes:

> (In fact, it seems that ?: has an advantage over the PEP's proposal
> because the ?: stand out more than the 'if' and 'else' keywords.)

This was the thing that surprised me the most when I tried to use the
new syntax for a bit.  My internal parser just saw

    return NAME.NAME NAME NAME.NAME NAME NAME

and gave up.

Cheers,
M.

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