Proposed PEP for a Conditional Expression

[piet at cs.uu.nl]

>>>>> Erik Max Francis <max at alcyone.com> (EMF) writes:

EMF> thp at cs.ucr.edu wrote:
>> C syntax does overload the already heavily used colon.

EMF> The colon isn't used all that much in C.  It's used in labels and
EMF> switch...case statements, the conditional operator, and bitfields.

>> Perhaps it
>> would be better to use semicolon instead of colon.

EMF> The colon is too overloaded in C, but the semicolon isn't?  At least one
EMF> semicolon appears in every C statement.

False! The semicolon is used to make a statement out of an expression.

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