Proposed PEP for a Conditional Expression

[Ralph Corderoy]

Hi,

> > The colon is too overloaded in C, but the semicolon isn't?  At
> > least one semicolon appears in every C statement.
> 
> False! The semicolon is used to make a statement out of an
> expression.

Not always.

    do {
        foo();
    } while (x);

The last semi-colon isn't making a statement from an expression.  it's
merely helping with error recovery in the parser.


Ralph.